Saturday, December 15, 2012

Angels Whisper In My Ear: A Book Review


This book is also quite a bit different from my last book review that dealt with the hard science of quantum physics, archeology, human evolution and cyclical global weather patterns. The subject matter of this, my latest book review, was definitely something I had not come across or sought out since my days in college. Kyle Gray’s book, Angels Whisper In My Ear, deals with the extraordinary world of parapsychology and mediums.

In essence, Angels Whisper In My Ear, is a book about a gifted young man with an ability to communicate with the other side. This includes being able to speak with and see departed spirits who have passed over and communication with angels. At the tender age of four, Kyle discovered that he could see and speak with the spirit of someone who had passed away. His first encounter with his ability, his gift occurred with his own beloved ,“Nana”, or grandmother.

As you read through this book, Kyle introduces us to a wide variety of clients that he has done readings for including people from all walks of life. The personalities, lifestyles and professions vary widely among them all. Many of the folks that Kyle conducted his readings with were often very skeptical of either his abilities or their ability to believe in and accept what they would be presented with. One very self-absorbed, antagonistic fellow was so shaken by the message Kyle received and shared with him that he simply got up from the reading and fled out the door.

What each of Kyle’s reading clients share in common is a deep interest in making contact with a loved one to help heal a wounded heart, to ease a deep grieving or to make right something that was left undone between them and a loved one who died before some kind of closure could be initiated. In virtually all the cases of those that he either read for once or over a series of times, Kyle was able to help bring healing, understanding and substantial positive closure into the lives of those still living via his link and message sharing from the other side.

His Relationship with the Spiritual Realm
As he grew into his teens, Kyle honed his psychic skills that intensified his ability to visualize the auras that each of us possess immediately around ourselves. Kyle describes an aura as being a single or multicolored energy field that emanates out of and around each of us. It represents the  spiritual energy that each of us own.

He  discovered that he could see and sense the presence of the spirits of the departed as well as both guardian angels and the more highly evolved Archangels such as those mentioned in the Bible known as Michael and Raphael.

He shares with his readers that not only do each and every one of us possess our own guardian angel, but that some folks are blessed with more than one.

Kyle shares something in his book that was new to me. That is, the existence of what the angels refer to as “Crystal Children.” These are children born into our world carrying special gifts or talents but dwelling in bodies that are crippled up with disease or with a mind struggling with autism, retardation, etc. They are most often born into the homes of very loving and caring parents who’s challenge is to figure out how to connect with their child’s gifts as they are being raised.

What I Got Out of This Book
1. I had just received my copy of this book to read and then review when I lost my own mother, Beatrice Dodson, in mid October of this year. She passed at the age of 87 due to a combination of diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. I found comfort in learning more about the world that Kyle Gray can see and communicate with and knowing that my mother now resides in that realm.

2. Each and every one of us, has the ability to reach out and access that spiritual plane that we originated from and which our departed family members and loved ones pass over into. In other words, we all have access to the other side, with or without the assistance of someone such as Kyle.

3. Personal validation that all of the paranormal experiences I have had throughout my own life involving deceased family members were authentic and very real in spite of what some less open minded people might think.

Caregivers in particular, take note. This book and it’s subject matter will bring comfort and a sense of pride to you in what is otherwise very difficult and challenging work. My wife Penny and I have been caregivers for both sets of aging parents for nearly nine years now. Caregiving, in a way, prepares people with terminal illnesses to face their own mortality and eventual passing over. Kyle Grays book, Angels Whisper In My Ear, reveals the wondrous world that awaits those who do pass and that we the living have the ability to reach out and keep open a channel to the other side and the extraordinary beings, that we know as angels, who stand ready to help us there.

Open your mind to what if... possibilities, and give this book a read.


Jeff Dodson
December 15th 2012


FTC Disclosure I received this book free from Hay House Publishing for this review. The opinions expressed in this review are unbiased and reflect my honest judgment of the product.

Monday, December 3, 2012

Our Belief In Angels


I will be posting a book review upon my blog site in the very near future that deals with the topics of  parapsychology, clairvoyance, spirits and angels. The book in question, from Hay House Publishing is entitled, Angels Whisper In My Ear, by Kyle Gray.

Way back in the early 1970’s while attending college, I became fascinated with the field of parapsychology, mediums, telekinesis, telepathy, etc. For a couple of years, I read up all that I could about subjects supernatural. Nothing about angels though. Then, my interests migrated elsewhere; to girls.

It is now some forty plus years later and here I have chosen Kyle Gray’s book to read and prepare a review on. What made me chose his book? Curiosity I suppose. That, plus I had never dealt with the topic of angels before. Since angels figure prominently in Mr. Gray’s line of work and his book, I thought I would look into the belief in angels further.

What it is about them that seem to be so attractive? How many people percentage wise in the United States believe in them? I was surprised by what I learned.

Angel is a word derived from the Greek word Angelos which means messenger. Among a substantial number of people as well as a diverse number of faiths of the world, angels are believed to act as emissaries or envoys who connect our material world with the spiritual realm. Some angels are said to be earthbound while the greater majority of them inhabit the spiritual plane as beings of light.

In 2006, an Associated Press-AOL poll was conducted that found that 81% of Americans believed in the existence of angels.

Time Magazine conducted their own poll of 1700 people in September 2008 on the topic of angels. One poll finding in particular was interesting. When faced with the statement, “I was protected from harm by a guardian angel,” 55% of the respondents answered affirmatively. That percentage held up regardless of denomination, region of the country or educational background.

Guardian angels, acting to protect folks from perils, harm and disaster, seems to be a popularly held  belief among many people in our society.

Last year, on December 23rd 2011, CBS News announced the results of of an Associated Press-GfK poll conducted between December 8th - 12th of 2011. The poll results revealed that 77% believed that such beings as angels are real. In this poll women were found more likely to believe they are real, and, those over the age of 30 are more apt than younger adults to think they exist.

So what can we glean from all of these polls?

It would appear that when it comes to the subject of angels, there is widespread acceptance in the belief in them. It also appears that a number of people have taken that belief even further by holding to the notion that they each may have their own guardian angel maintaining a lookout to protect them.  People want to believe in something greater than themselves in addition to their Creator, their Source.

Do I believe in angels? Yes. Call it an act of my own personal faith. And, I am one of those folks who definitely feels that he has been looked after, many times in his life, by what could only be described as his own guardian angel or two.

No, I cannot lay claim to ever having seen one either literally or in my minds eye....yet.

Who knows what the future might hold though?


Jeff Dodson
December 3rd 2012