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    Postcards from Heaven: Messages of Love from the Other Side
    Postcards from Heaven: Messages of Love from the Other Side
    Postcards from Heaven: Messages of Love from the Other Side
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    Postcards from Heaven: Messages of Love from the Other Side

    By Dan Gordon

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    "Nearly all of us either have had or have heard of an experience in which a soul already departed reaches back to us who have been left behind.... Sometimes, it's no more than a whisper, a familiar smell in the air, or just the feeling of presence as vivid as when the loved one was still alive. These moments are just that...moments, a glimpse behind the veil; not a letter from heaven, but a postcard." (Dan Gordon, Postcards from Heaven)

    A postcard from heaven is not a revelation from on high -- rather, it's "a whisper, a familiar smell in the air, or just the feeling of presence" of someone who's passed away. It is just enough of a message to imply that what we call life is not ended by what we call death.

    Dan Gordon has been receiving these postcards all his life -- from his father, his older brother, and his son Zaki, who was killed in a car accident when he was only twenty-two. Postcards from Heaven is the beautiful, inspirational memoir of four generations of a remarkable family and how they remain interconnected, a part of one another's stories, even after passing to the other side. Here is the span of his father's long life, moving and funny, from the Russian Revolution to his improbable Depression-era courtship of a woman named Goddess -- Gordon's mother -- to his spiritual later years in Israel; his incorrigible older brother's mischievous magic, able to find humor even in cancer treatment; and his brilliant son, a natural storyteller who looked destined to follow his father into the movie business. These are the stories of their lives on earth as well as after death.

    Full of humor, compassion, and love, Postcards from Heaven comforts and assures us that those we loved can reach back to those of us still on earth -- and, if only we are attentive enough to listen, we can hear them say,

    Got here safe.

    It's really beautiful.

    Much love, till we meet again.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtria Books
    Release dateNov 11, 2008
    ISBN9781416591924
    Postcards from Heaven: Messages of Love from the Other Side
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    Dan Gordon

    Dan Gordon was head writer of the hit TV series Highway to Heaven; his screenwriting credits include The Hurricane, Murder in the First, Wyatt Earp, and The Celestine Prophecy. He is the author of the stage adaptations of Terms of Endearment and Rain Man; cofounder of the Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Filmmaking in Sedona, Arizona; and has been a guest lecturer at Columbia University School of the Arts, USC School of Cinematic Arts, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, and Tel Aviv University.

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      Don't let the title fool you. This is not another book about near-death-experiences. It's a beautifully written story about one man and his family, focusing on those moments that can either be dismissed as coincidence or taken as proof of synchronicity. The author sees them as messages, and the author is a superlative story teller. I read this book the week after my mother died and it was just the ticket.

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    Postcards from Heaven - Dan Gordon

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    A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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    New York, NY 10020

    Copyright © 2008 by Dan Gordon

    Foreword copyright © 2008 by Linda Gray

    All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Free Press Subsidiary Rights Department, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020

    FREE PRESS and colophon are trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Gordon, Dan.

    Postcards from heaven: messages of love from the other side / by Dan Gordon.

    p. cm.

    1. Spiritualism 2. Gordon, Dan. I. Title.

    BF1301.G765 2008

    133.901'3—dc22

    2008002210

    ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-9192-4

    ISBN-10: 1-4165-9192-3

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    For Zaki

    CONTENTS

    FOREWORD

    INTRODUCT ON

    THE SPACESU T

    DAV D

    PAPA

    MOM

    GRANDMA GODDESS

    REB Y SRAEL BEN SHMUEL DOV

    ZAK

    HANUKAH

    SHABBES HANUKAH

    LIFE AFTER L FE

    NOTE TO READER

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    FOREWORD

    Dan Gordon is a master storyteller, and in his profound book he has shared his personal family stories. They are real; they come from the heart, and they inspire us all to take a glimpse into our own lives and ponder the possibilities of life after death. Dan’s simple book of life is much more complex than it appears. It encourages us to ask profound and powerful questions about our own lives.

    We all have a story. Our stories differ according to our personal circumstances, but still they belong to us. In my own journey, I try to make sense of the complexity of life. I want to believe that life is eternal. I have no concrete proof of that but I know that, when I think about it, it changes the way I feel about everything. What a different world it would be if we could look at life and death differently. If life were indeed eternal, how would we all go about our lives? Would we worry about death; about getting old; about money, jobs, relationships? Wouldn’t we simply focus on being alive and fully functioning on this planet…right now? Would we say I love you…and mean it? Would we cease to care what others thought? Would we begin appreciating the small things that life is offering? I believe that our world would begin to expand. We would see—and more importantly, we would feel—the shift taking place within.

    When my father passed away, I was filled with sadness, from worrying about my mother and how she would manage without him. How could she continue to live alone in the home they had shared for sixty-two years?

    One afternoon after his memorial I walked into a large commercial store, and they were playing my father’s favorite song over the loudspeaker, Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World. I stopped and immediately knew, and felt, that this was my postcard, my own personal postcard from Heaven. The thought that Dad was there with me through this song was enough to change my feelings from sadness to appreciation. My vibration had changed. Did I miss him? You bet. Did I want to be able to sit down and talk with him in this noisy building? Yep! I wandered aimlessly around the store, pushing my cart, fully listening to every word of the song, and I felt my feelings go from sadness to appreciation. Appreciation for the time we did have together on this planet: appreciation for him being my father; for giving me values that I adhere to to this day; and for so many, many valuable lessons.

    Do we have the answers to life and death? Probably not, but this wonderful book opens us up to the grand notion that perhaps life just might be eternal…the ultimate postcard.

    With great love and respect I encourage you to read Dan’s stories with an open mind and heart and explore your own life stories—and watch the postcards come flying in.

    Linda Gray

    INTRODUCT ON

    I would venture that nearly all of us either have had or have heard of an experience in which a soul already departed reaches back to those of us who have been left behind in this world with a reassuring touch. Sometimes it’s no more than a whisper, a familiar smell in the air, or just the feeling of presence as vivid as when the loved one was still alive. These moments are just that…moments, a glimpse behind the veil; not a letter from heaven, but a postcard.

    There are those who believe that what we call life ends with what they call death. They either do not believe that there is such a thing as a soul, or if there is a soul, that it dies with the body. I think such people are like frightened children—afraid to be disappointed, to be deprived of that which they most desire—so they deny that what they want even exists. They hide their heads beneath a security blanket of science and reason, arguing that no one can empirically prove the existence of the soul eternal and, therefore, it does not exist. Believing in a soul, to them, is little more than superstition.

    To me, their argument is like suggesting that various waves of energy, which science can measure, could not possibly have existed before the advent of the instruments with which we measure them. Of course, the opposite is true. Light waves have existed for as long as there has been light, but the spectrometer that measures those waves has been here for less than a century. Indeed, only recently has a theory been offered explaining that light exists both as a particle and a wave at the same time. This seeming contradiction, however, is not within the nature of light but within our ability to define it, to put it in the proper box, to make it conform to the proper rule. While it’s true that we humans certainly created the theory of the moment, we most assuredly did not create light. Light is light. Our ability to understand it is evolving, but no matter how we define it, we won’t affect its properties or the reality of its existence.

    Thus, I believe it is with the soul. The soul is. Only our ability to define and measure the soul is evolving, which brings us to two things: faith and anecdotal evidence. This slim volume attests to both: faith in the existence of life after death and anecdotal evidence—the postcards from heaven, if you will, which illustrate and celebrate that existence.

    Their message has comforted me, and I hope it will do the same for you. It is a simple one, really:

    Got here safe.

    It’s really beautiful.

    Much much love till we meet again.

    THE SPACESU T

    My Sweetheart, who is as wise as she is beautiful, refers to death as taking off the spacesuit.

    Imagine you were an astronaut, out for a little space walk, puttering around the station perhaps, fixing up the solar panels, when suddenly you encountered a being from another galaxy. Let us say that you and the being exchanged astronaut pleasantries and looked each other over, possibly even touched each other, and then your new E.T. friend vanished, headed back to the mother ship all atwitter with news of the strange new species he had just encountered.

    That being from a galaxy far far away would probably describe you as looking like their equivalent of the Pillsbury Doughboy or the Michelin Man. You were, he would report, bulky and white, with a glassy countenance. Then he

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