People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do about It

By Gary Leon Hill

Book Overview

In People Who Don't Know They're Dead , Gary Leon Hill tells a family story of how his Uncle Wally and Aunt Ruth, Wally's sister, came to counsel dead spirits who took up residence in bodies that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578632978
• ISBN13: 9781578632978
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Weiser Books
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

People who don't know there dead

I like to kid if you don't learn anything else from this book when you die....."go to the LIGHT". This alone makes the book worth the admission price. $10 or eternity in the shadowland.... Hmmmm I'll have to think about this for a while. I'm just having fun with a subject that I find many of us have way to many hang ups on . In trying to discuss this book with others I received some very extreme responses proving the NEED for a book like this that takes on a topic that are death phobic culture needs lots of help on. PWDNTD is a light hearted upbeat.. at times funny success. Serious, hardcore spirit release folks would most likely find this overly soft but enjoyable read, but for the rest of us.... it is a very necessary rung on the ladder towards something else like... Baldwins.. Spirit release manual.

Well researched-great narrative!

This book presented the author's perspective very well and in such a way as to keep the reader engaged. He presents a lot of information, in a concise way. Additionally, he introduces a lot of ideas that have been around for a very long time, but presents them in a new and interesting context. I recommend this book very highly.

Very enjoyable book!

Wonderful book! It sheds light on an area of the paranormal not often discussed, the idea of hitchhiker spirits. The author's style is one that is easy to read and believeable... I felt as if I personally knew the folks being written about. There is much wisdom here.. some of it pretty "down home," and that, as far as I'm concerned, is what makes the book such an enjoyable read. Many other writers of paranormal subjects have given the same references regarding damaging the humam aura through the use of drugs, excess alcohol, and other negative behaviors, and the chance that such "beings" may have "troubles" once they die... none of this is new, nor should it be considered "wacko" or ridiculed. I was saddened to see this book so criticized by such seemingly narrow-minded reviewers. This is definitely one of my "keeper" books that I'm adding to my personal library.

Much Truth and Wisdom

Having read the works of Drs. Wickland, Fiore, Sagan, and others cited by the author, I see much truth and wisdom in this book, which is well written and very informative. Unfortunately, it is beyond the boggle threshold of many people, including most of the others who have reviewed the book. Unlike the other reviewers, I don't pretend to have a full grasp of absolute truth, if there is such a thing as absolute truth, but there is a preponderance of credible evidence suggesting that spirit possession is very real, i.e., low-level or earthbound spirits, many who don't even know they are dead, are attaching themselves to the auras of humans and influencing humans in negative behaviour. Of course, mainstream psychicatry and psychology, in all their arrogance, scoff at this, as they are locked into a reductionist mindset. "This smug nihilism with its superior air of scientific wisdom is often only the opposite pole of the dogmatic certitude of the churchman," Jirah D. Buck, M.D. once wrote. "Actual knowledge of the human soul is quite as far removed from the one as the other. Credulity and Incredulity siimply annul each other; often make faces at each other, while Progress stalks alone in the middle of the road, a "tramp" or a "vagabond..." The skeptic asks how one cannot know he or she is dead. Does one know that he is alive when he is dreaming during sleep? Don't fall victim to the closed-minded thinking of some of the other reviewers. This book has much to offer.

Be sure you know what you're getting

The book is more a story of one family's exploration of the attached-ghost phenomena, and less a story about what to do about it. It's good as a folksy biography, but there isn't a lot of self-help stuff, as the title implies. Overall it's an interesting spin on ghosts and their influence on human psychology, one that I hadn't heard before.