A Swan in Heaven blends thought-provoking narrative with stirring afterlife messages from a 16 year-old boy who began communicating with his mother telepathically after his death. What makes this account unique in the world of channeled books is that during his life, this extraordinary child was severely disabled and unable to speak. But after death his language was fluent and his words were insightful, inspired and eloquent.

The messages in best-selling channeled books are overwhelmingly similar. Notable intuitives like Edgar Cayce, Jane Roberts, James Van Praagh, Sylvia Browne and Neale Donald Walsch have shared their channeled transmissions with millions, and the content is stunning in its clarity and consistency. Conversations with God, the Seth series, A Course in Miracles and countless others speak of loving entities who guide us from other realms, and they dismiss the fear-based concept of a judgmental God.

Spiritual seekers are starving for alternatives to the fear and disempowerment they experienced in their childhood churches. Remarkably, all the answers are there, simply for the asking, requiring nothing more than an open heart and the understanding that we are more than these interim physical forms. Emotional and spiritual education is available to us in many forms from many sources, beyond books, schools and human experience. There are eager teachers in other realms waiting with infinite patience for us to tune in and start listening.

One such teacher is Danny Mandell, who died at age 16 after struggling with a degenerative disorder that transformed him from an active, healthy seven year-old into a wheelchair-bound teenager who wore diapers, was unable to talk and could not use his hands. He was completely non-verbal during the last years of his life, but within an hour after his death, he began “speaking” to his mother, guiding her to publish his words in a book that would have a unique perspective, not just on the journey of the soul, but on the specific subject of personal relationships and the power of meditation and forgiveness to transform them.