Book Reviewed: Seeking Jordan: How I Learned the Truth about Death and the Invisible Universe, by Matthew McKay.

Healing after a personal loss – A conversation with the messenger from beyond

Grief is a stressful journey and it is never the same for the loved one who is still living. It is a unique and a very special experience in life. Death is an inevitable part of life but it is also hard to accept the death of a loved one. How do you heal yourself? How do you translate pain into a realization and enlightenment? One would like to seek god through religion or empower themselves with spiritual awakening. In this deeply personal and moving book, Professor Mathew McKay of Berkeley Wright Institute struggles to deal with his son’s tragic death and he tries to reconstruct his life without him. I struggled to live my life without my mother who passed away many years ago and I found that is the most difficult journey of my life.

There are many books about near-death experience, parapsychology, out of body experience, and remote viewing. All these point to a place variously described as heaven, hell, land of unending-happiness and Shangri-La, a mystical and harmonious valley, an earthly paradise. In this book, McKay undergoes hypnotic regressions to contact his son, Jordan who reveals about soul, karma, reincarnation and how living and dead remain connected. In one conversation, Jordan tells his father, “The after-life is so much closer than those lights, it is next to you; I am next to you.” In another conversation, Jordan says, “We must learn to love with a love that holds everything.” In chapter 6, McKay describes the physical setting of the place where he meets and communicates with his son. This is probably McKay’s Shangri-La.

There are certain versions of Roman legend Hercules which says that Hercules was immortal. And with this God-given power he ascends to Mount Olympus and there he sees some of his dead relatives.

McKay’s book is inspiring and it comforts those who lost the dearest person in their lives. There is a beacon of hope about the possibilities that remain to us as we deal with our own approaching mortality. It is up to us to find that path and relieve the pain and sadness, and find the true meaning of life.