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Looking Beyond: A Teen’s Guide to the Spiritual World

by James Van Praagh

📖 208 pages 🗓 2003 ISBN 978-0743242059

About This Book

Van Praagh's guide to spiritual understanding specifically written for young people — addressing questions about death, the afterlife, God, psychic phenomena, and the meaning of life in language that is accessible and engaging for teenagers. The book draws on his mediumship experience to offer a vision of reality that is simultaneously spiritually profound and practically relevant to the specific challenges of adolescence and young adulthood.

What You'll Learn

Young people's openness to spiritual reality — their willingness to ask genuinely difficult questions without the defensive certainty that adults often develop — is a genuine spiritual gift rather than a sign of immaturity. The questions that seem most "teen" in their directness — Why do people die? What happens after death? Is there a God? What is my purpose? — are actually the deepest questions of human existence, and the answers to them are more readily accessible than most adults acknowledge. Death, properly understood, is not a tragedy but a transition — and the grief that accompanies loss, while genuinely painful, is itself a measure of the love that continues beyond physical separation.

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