Open love letter to Clint Eastwood, Peter Morgan, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Steven Spielberg, Robert Lorenz, & Tim Moore for creating the film HEREAFTER.

http://hereafter.warnerbros.com/


This is an impassioned post as I just got home from seeing the wonderful film, HEREAFTER...during which I cried numerous times.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone involved with this high quality piece of art, which is more than art.  It's truth.  As someone with the gift of mediumship that has sometimes been difficult to deal with due to the responsibility involved, thank you, thank you, thank you for portraying George so truthfully as he struggles with his gift of mediumship.  Thank you for treating the character with respect.  The film was beautiful and real.


I can totally relate to George's character's headache issue as his psychic ability presented itself.  In fact, I am now questioning if some of the head pain I've battled for so long isn't related to my psychic ability.  I had a reading in 2005 by a very good medium who suffered migraines so severe, she had to be checked into the hospital a few times per year and put on morphine until the migraine passed.


When Matt Damon's character (George) is starting the reading of the little boy and gives him the message from his brother about what it's like to be "dead", I burst into tears again.  Clint, Peter, Kathleen, Steven, Robert, Tim, and Frank...you presented the truth.  Can I prove it?  No I can't....but...I know what every fiber in my being tells me is the truth.


Films and TV shows have immense power to change the world.  I have felt this for a long time.  Because of quality films like HEREAFTER one more person may start to open his/her mind about the Other Side and what reality is...and what we are....eternal souls.  Fear disappears when one realizes he/she will always "be" in one form or another.  Thich Nhat Hanh says in a book I'm currently reading that we shouldn't say "Happy Birthday!" to someone, but should instead say, "Happy Continuation Day!" as there is no birth or death....we just change forms and continue on.


Thank you all for a blessing of a movie.  Clint, I am going to ask Kimber to give you a hug for me and I hope she follows through. :-) The rest of you I'll hug if ever I meet you. :-) Oh, and on a purely Land of Enchantment lover and resident level, thank you for mentioning Santa Fe in the movie.  It made me smile when a publisher in Santa Fe is the one who came through on publishing the book about near death experiences in the film.


In Light,
Atheria a.k.a. Carrie J. Ryan
Albuquerque, NM