Looking for the Other Side

By Sherry Suib Cohen

Book Overview

If you're going to write a book about worlds with no answers, phenomenon that scientists can't explain and skeptics can't fathom--you'd better do it with the right equipment--the eye of a journalist, the voice of a novelist, an open mind and compassionate heart. In Looking for the Other Side, writer Sherry Suib Cohen is perfectly outfitted with these tools in her exploration of the world of the occult. It all begins when Cohen, a journalist, takes an assignment to try and contact the spirit of her deceased mom. In her searching, she meets astrologers, past-life channelers, numerologists, psychics, and a host of other practitioners eager to put her in touch with her past, her future, and her heretofore unexplored spiritual self. "Cohen will hook readers with her determination, wit, generosity and astonishing willingness to try anything. In the end, her personal odyssey becomes ours, and even the most devoted skeptics will find themselves rethinking what might and what might not be possible." --Betsy Carter, Editor-in-Chief, New Woman magazine "When I saw the words know thyself carved above the Oracle's gate at Delphi, I shivered--and didn't understand why. Now, I understand. Knowing myself would mean suspending judgment, would mean tapping into banks of information I never before thought relevant to my pragmatic lifestyle. Well, I've tapped. This book is the result," writes Sherry Suib Cohen. And in a spirited narrative, Cohen tells us about her experiences wherein she confronts death, blame, forgiveness, faith, truth, and family, in addition to Mom. When readers finish this personal odyssey and guidebook into the unknown, they may decide, just as Cohen did, that there's something to these otherwordly spheres after all.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517708280
• ISBN13: 9780517708286
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Looking For The Other Side was my most favorite book to write!

I was arrogant and know-it-all: there's no such thing as "the other side." Then,my publisher asked me to write a book on the topic==to hold my disbelief to myself, and try stuff out with an open mind. OH BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A skeptic's search for the truth

Sherry Suib Cohen was given an assignment by her boss to research psychic phenomena, and the result was this book. From the start, she was highly skeptical of the supernatural world, but did the assignment with an open mind.The book chronicles Sherry's research though different aspects of the genre. She visits channelers, psychics, mediums, tarot readers, tea leaf readers, astrologers, oracles, and parapsychologists. She often finds herself checking her skepticism througout the book, and reminds herself to keep an open mind. Preceding each section, she gives an in depth explanation of each phenomena, which I found enlightening. She also fills the book with her sarcastic humor, and is unabashedly skeptical, until incidents TOO SPECIFIC are brought up about her.This book was quite fun to read because of Sherry's humorous personality, and refreshing because it was an earnest attempt by a true skeptic to delve into the world of the paranormal.A super bonus of this book is that Sherry gives the names, phone numbers, and addresses of the psychics, astrologers, etc., so you can try them out for yourself.

It is simply fabulous

Where has this book been in my life? I cannot recommend it more highly--it's funny, charming,witty and above all--eye-opening. I'm a serious skeptic but now, like Ms. Cohen, not arrogant any more. I want to pursue her research and the telephone numbers of the practyitioners in the back of the book will let me do just that. I have rarely read a more absorbing, first person account of a person's honest exploration of somthing she laughed at previously--and now, is not laughing quite so hard any more. I ordered 10 copies of this book to give everyuone I know. What conversations it opens!

This book opened my mind and eyes.

I am a skeptic from the word "go." Yet, I must admit that this book shook me up, gave me at least a few moments of doubt about the existence of forces from the "other side." It didn't convert me, no, but it made me think a little differently. I was charmed by the possibilities. In addition, the book made me laugh. Sherry Suib Cohen is a witty and above all, an honest writer.