Eternal Bonds of Love (Paperback)

ETERNAL BONDS OF LOVE is a poignant account of a young man's afterlife experiences after his death at age 20. Ricardo passed after an accidental fall at College on September 18, 2005. He started communicating through written messages to his father on July 2006. In July 2007 he communicated to his parents that they would be writing a book together to be finished and published in one year's time. And so they did! You will find in this unusual book Ricardo's story about his experiences, feelings, emotions and spiritual development in the first two years after his untimely and unexpected passing. He shares his stages of evolution, his 'new life', changes in his 'body and habits' and the 'people' he encounters along the way. Through his verses one is carried away to another reality where love, compassion, understanding and spiritual growth are the dominant features and goals of those living 'life after death'.

Inspirational afterlife memoir studded with messages for the living from a young man who has passed, as divined through his father. Humans have long been fascinated by the possibility of communicating with spirits who have passed from the earthly realm. In Eternal Bonds, readers meet Ricardo Petrillo, a 20-year-old college student who fell to his death in 2005. Through two years of sporadic communication with his father, the co-author Claudio, the book details Ricardo's experiences in the beyond. A year and a half after his death, Ricardo alerts Claudio and co-author Knoploch, his mother, that together they'll be transforming all the communications into this book. Upon dying, Ricardo finds himself in a Plato-like land of forms, first in hospital surroundings and then soon undertaking training to comprehend his spiritual evolution. He also learns how to transmit what he's learning to the living. Ricardo's messages, in both prose and verse, are geared toward helping the living understand their own spiritual multiplicity, with love as the ultimate answer to life's trials. A touching exploration of life's possibilities which illustrates that death is not an end, but a part of the life cycle. -- Kirkus Discoveries May 9th, 2008