We Are Their Heaven: Why the Dead Never Leave Us

I like how the book is broken up in short stories to allow me to spend a small amount of time reading each day but be able to get through a story to think about for the day. I enjoy Allison’s writing very much.

I can't keep myself from giving this book five stars, although there might have been a couple of issues. I'll share the issues later.The important parts: I met a medium in a chance encounter about a year ago. She doesn't do readings for a fee. In fact, she doesn't do many readings, but like Allison DuBois, she always knew she was a medium. She prepared me for this book.Like Allison, she says the life we enter when we leave this physical one is filled with light and love. Really bad, mean people find themselves in an environment they did not expect, and the kind, good people are there too. It's pretty simple. Allison did not deal well with the question of whether there are mean and angry spirits. Such spirits are outside of my friend's experience.The spirit world remains a mystery. Do spirits remain here forever? They remain her at least as long as there are people who miss them and love them, according to Allison. Okay, I'll go with that. Can spirits make new acquaintances? Yes, according to my friend.So this book is well worth your reading effort. Allison will inspire you to be kind, even in your skepticism. She acknowledges the importance of skepticism, but kindness always comes first. No one convinced me of this better than Allison.I guess you can tell I'm a believer in the spirit realm that Allison describes. Yes, that's true. My only criticism of this book is that Allison spends too much time being defensive and trying to argue off skeptics. I wish she'd had one single chapter or maybe even an appendix that covered the studies of her abilities and the reasons she could not know the things she does apart from the help of spirits.So with that caveat, I'll enthusiastically recommend this book. 'Nuff said.

If you're a fan of the TV show "Medium," you'll enjoy  We Are Their Heaven: Why the Dead Never Leave Us , by Allison DuBois. Chapter 3 compares basic premises of the television show with the real medium's life. If DuBois forbade the writing of the show unless everything about her, her husband (Joe), and their three daughters was accurate, the writers couldn't be closer except for using the girls' real names! They even wrote an episode just like an experience DuBois had but never told them!The insider's look at readings was what I especially appreciated. Most of the text recounts reading experiences in the words of those who sought out DuBois for a reading. Each section relate what the client heard and experienced, then repeats the incident from the medium's point of view. Particularly interesting is how living people who do not know each other are brought together because their loved ones have met on the other side and seemingly "conspired" to communicate with someone left behind. DuBois is constantly surprised by the intricacies exposed.If you've watched  John Edward  or another public medium, you'll already know that what some of those who've crossed over say seems remarkably insignificant. "Say the word `Jellybean.'" The value of  DuBois's book  is that she tries to explain why these choices are made.She specifically states that no one she has ever seen or heard from "across the vale" has done or said anything to hurt anyone. What she does not report is what happens on the other side to people who are wicked here and now. Yes, murder victims forget their perpetrators as inconsequential. But is there no hell? Is everyone good--even the fathers who neglected their families?Her objective is to bring comfort and connectedness. If you think you're being reminded of a certain thing by someone who has passed, you are. If you hear a song on the radio that makes you think of them, they put it on the air. The deceased are much better at moving objects, skewing pictures and blinking lights than they are at simply appearing and saying Hello to all but the most sensitive among us. Hence the heavenly collaborations.

It's a good read and thoughtful but one has to wonder what kind of person she is when verballyy attacks people who question her at her seminars...make you think she's a fake. Read with a grain of salt.

The book made me laugh, cry and reminded me of some things I'd forgotten! I kept thinking how lucky those people in the book were to have met Allison. I myself have so many questions I would love to ask her about what she does. And her family must be super loving and supportive! This book brought me hope on many levels! Thanks to whoever put it in my path!

Have read about 15% of the book and find that reality somewhat parallels the fictionalized TV series but is fresh and fascinating.I'm anxious (in a good way) to finish this text, as I find the subject matter both interesting and fascinating.Yes, there is more beyond our 5 senses....and some are privileged to be able to see it better than most.Hey, Allison....You "go", girl....good job !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Even us engineers learn to open our minds to the possibilities.We think with our logic...we "feel" and "decide" with our emotions.Logic can only take us so far...intuition and instinct gets us across the finish line.Why can't this intuition and instinct be more well-developed in certain individuals at the far, high end of that trait's bell-curve in us humans? The statistical math says its possible.Then there are always the curve breakers (Remember them is school?), who are off the scale. Who's to say they can't see and converse with the dearly departed?A fascinating read....

Haven't read the book yet, but have seen her work. Am anxious to read the 3 books of hers that I ordered.

This book is in perffic condition. This is a real story that today every one shoul know thatat what is up is also down the life continue ...

Good book

Allison Dubois may be a gifted medium but humility isn’t her strong point and neither is the written word. The sheer dreadfulness of her clumsy, lumbering prose is surpassed only by that of her husband’s in his ‘foreword’. Familiarity with the author appears to be the sole qualification for his appointment to this particular task, though it remains unclear quite why Dubois believes that her readership, which might well include those who are sceptical of her claims to converse with the dead, would be inclined to trust the judgement of another family member, or indeed why they would want to read anything by someone whose abilities as a writer are as severely limited as his wife’s. Allison is the master of the cliché, the Queen of Trite, the Empress of hyperbole, repetition and circumlocution, and her much vaunted ability as a medium is surpassed only by her gift for shameless self-promotion.Take for instance the chapter in which she describes readings she has provided for a client. In each instance, her version of the interchange is followed by that of said ‘client’. Without exception, both versions are written in the same pedestrian style and read as if they have been composed (badly) by the same writer - as I imagine they had, for the joint purposes of padding out the book and allowing Dubois to make sycophantic comments about herself while passing these off as the opinion of an admiring client.Personally, I was irked not only by the extremely mediocre quality of her writing style but by her endless eulogies about herself, her husband and her children. Let me be clear: I ordered the book because I am potentially interested as a reader in her experiences as a psychic, not in her familial relationships or in interminable diatribes as to why her kids are better than other people’s kids. What was resoundingly clear in this, the only book of hers I have read thus far, a situation that is not likely to alter now I have completed it, is her apparent conviction that mediums constitute a sort of master race, a superhuman elite, a priest caste, and that psychic ability should attract special privileges, uncritical veneration and endless gratitude. Even had Dubois been successful in concealing her distasteful attitudes in print and demonstrated less laxity in the past in managing her public profile, there are more engagingly written books by equally gifted psychics. I will not be wasting any more time therefore on further variations of Ms Dubois’ turgidly presented memoirs. If you like mawkish sentimentality, a high school standard of English and a patronising tone, this may be the book for you but it wasn’t to my taste.

I have lots of books on the subject of angels and life after death, however this is probably the first book that I have become bored with half way through. The title gives the impression that the book is answering the question it states and I expected some tips or clues as to what to look out for and perhaps her reasoning for stating that they never leave us. However each chapter is a case study on her clients and how she picked up on things that her clients loved ones did or said during readings. I ended up putting the book on my shelf after the forth chapter of yet more case studies and no reader interaction.

A lovely, uplifting book for everyone who has lost a loved one. It helps you realise that we will see them again one day.