The Light Between Us

Laura Lynne Jackson leads what looks like an ordinary life. She is a wife, a mother and a high school English teacher. She is also a psychic medium. Most people assume a solid barrier separates the living from the dead, but Jackson says she perceives something else entirely: bright cords of light that link the two sides.

In this memoir she describes how she came to understand her gift and how she has used it. She has spent years communicating with people who have died and helping the families they left behind find a way through grief. Her account is plainspoken and warm, and it moves between her own story and the experiences of the people she has worked with.

The book also takes up the questions most of us ask at some point. Why are we here? What happens when we die? How do we recognize the path we are meant to follow? Jackson offers her answers as a case for a wider view of consciousness and of what being human involves, and she suggests that this view can change how we live now.

Readers drawn to books on near-death experiences, the afterlife and mediumship, or anyone coping with the loss of someone close, may find comfort in what she has to say.