We covered this in an earlier question, but this repeat of it gives me a chance to expound upon this topic.

I mentioned that my book contains only one appendix. This was originally designed for my friend Robert Bruce’s Astral Dynamics. As a result of my knowing Robert, I met his editor at Hampton Roads, Frank DeMarco. In my book, I used a quote from Mr. Colin Wilson’s The Mind Parasites. I begin the appendix which is “The Mind” with a quote from his book:

I had been assuming that man is limited because his brain is

limited, that only so much can be packed into the portmanteau.

But the spaces of the mind are a new dimension. The

body is a mere wall between two infinities. Space extends to

infinity outwards; the mind stretches to infinity inwards.

—Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites

Although the use of most quotations in writing can be consider part of a public domain, I did my best to contact authors for their permission to quote. In some cases I was referred to their publishers, but not when it came to Richard Bach and Colin Wilson.

When I speak of life’s plan and that once we realize that we have very little power to change things, it is easy to see how events fall into place just as we assemble a jigsaw puzzle. When the time is right, the needed element appears, as if by magic.

Through Robert, I met Frank who knows Richard and Colin personally and professionally. He put me in touch and I was able to obtain permission to quote them. They were most happy to oblige in this regard.

Now, as a result, I came to realize that Mr. Wilson, author of over 50 books, had one that appealed to me. I purchased it with another of his books and now, after being on the shelf for a year or two, it has jumped into my hands as a spring board for my new interest:

Afterlife, by Colin Wilson.

It was one piece of the puzzle that I now need to focus my research into a deeper study of the spiritual world and what happens when we go, as has my friend Martin Simmonds, into the mystic!

I will be able to explain this in my next book on universal healing, universal energy and consciousness. For now, Medicine, Miracles and Manifestations addresses the thoughts of psychics past and present, remote viewing, and patient encounters which suggest that there is indeed an afterlife and a spiritual world.