The Birth Called Death: The Remarkable Story of One Woman's Journey to the Other Side of Life

AUTHOR: Kathy Jordan

I just finished reading The Birth Called Death: The remarkable story of one woman's journey to the other side of life, by Kathie Jordan. It was published in August, 2003. So this book was released nineteen years ago. My point is that I feel that the author was trying to capitalize on the then somewhat new public interest in NDEs and OBEs and the general curiosity as to what happens on the Otherside in the Afterlife.

The book is really a sort of memoir or a recollection written in a style that I will describe as sort of a novel complete with dialogue between the characters. And due to the fact that it is a recollection of mostly childhood events, any such dialogue between her living parents and deceased brother and various guides would of necessity have to be conjured up to put it mildly!

Disclaimer: Because I've read so many books about life death and the Otherside, perhaps I am biased; that perhaps I know too much, and therefor this book to some inexperienced readers may seem fantastical, however, at the same time I found it overly simplified when it comes to explaining the kinds of experience one could have in the higher dimensions. Also please note that the book was not written until quite a few years later when the author was a grown adult reflecting on her experiences as a child.

The entire concept of the story is that young Kathie, age three, while in a sleep state, is contacted by her older brother who had been killed in the Korean War. The war ran from 1950 to 1953. Her brother had to have been at least age 18 to about 20 when he died. So if the author was age 3 when he first made contact with her, that means there was quite an age difference between them: at least 15 years! I find that difficult to believe, however I guess it might be possible, just not probable!

Her out of body experiences took place when she was as young as 3 years old and then sporadically at various random times as she grew up. Sometimes there were long gaps between visitations. And there did not seem to be any explanation as to why this was the case.

Besides her ability to visit the higher dimensions so frequently and easily what I found most interesting is that she was able to attend classes with higher level teachers as well as Jesus, which I can believe. However, I found that her recollection of the dialogue, especially in the classes with Jesus, it seemed like she was lifting Jesus quotes right out of the Bible instead of quoting Him directly as he might have spoken to her in her experience. And from my studies into how the Bible was written and especially translated, I don’t think anyone can be 100% certain as to what exactly was said way back when. So because of this insertion of direct biblical quotes from the King James Bible, it reinforces the feeling that some of her experiences were conjured up much later. I am not saying that she didn't have these experiences, but because the book was written so much later in her life as recollections I think the tale loses some of the credibility that I would want to see in a book like this.

Some of the reviews on Amazon evidently agree with me so I guess it depends on your level of spiritual knowledge of the Otherside before starting to read such a book. If you're a newbie then you might learn a lot that you didn't know, however if you're an old hand like me who has studied a lot of this sort of material you might find a lot of it to be recollected later on, which she probably had to do in order to piece the story together. So it wasn't written as a memoir as you might expect most books like this to be. So, because she decided to treat her memoir more as a novel with actual dialogue between the characters I guess you will have to allow her some creative license in order to accomplish what she intended.

The premise of this book is that it's an interesting concept but I am left wondering why she, as a young girl of three or so was chosen to have these experiences without first having had an NDE which most people probably would have had in order to have their consciousness expanded to the point of being able experience the workings of the higher dimensions. And because this all began when she was age three, she would not have the vocabulary or understanding to know what was happening. On the plus side, she did have a recognizable figure, her brother, as a guide throughout.

I couldn't wait for the book to end as it seemed to go on and on and on especially in the last couple of chapters where the author, now more of an adult, was coaching and interacting with her mother who had cancer and was about to die, but then kept on living, on and on and on. Personally, I did not need to suffer through her description of all of that! I found it off-purpose and so I fell asleep in what seemed like every few pages and I just could not seem to get enthused enough to find out how it ended. But then miracle of miracles happened and somehow, after a few days of this, I finally did complete the book! Whew!

There are much better books out there along these lines ,so I would say skip this one unless you have a lot of time on your hands. If that’s the case, then it might make an interesting, but fanciful introduction to the higher dimensions. Get it on Amazon.