I recently finished Michael Tymn’s book,  Dead Men Talking: Afterlife Communication from World War I. The book is a review of channeled messages received from newly fallen soldiers in The Great War. Two of its most interesting features are the variety of messages and views, and the strange mixture of sophisticated accounts of the afterlife with simplistic accounts.

But what is fascinating is how these dead soldiers continued to interact with the battlefield, swiftly coming to the aid of comrades who are either dying or have just died. We get a glimpse of what war is like from the point of view of those who just died. Some offer their understanding of the purpose of World War I, from their perspective. And we learn how some soldiers adjusted quickly directly after their deaths and some did not. Those who did, immediately began rescue work for those who were dying in battle. Those who did not were helped with compassion and understanding.

Below is the same story from the same war, but told from the other side, the side of the living who experienced the help of these dead soldiers. Put together with the channeled information in Tymns’s book, we have a more complete picture of how dead soldiers work to combat the horrors of war.

Sadly, we do not have much of this kind of information from soldiers in later wars, despite the tremendous amount of extraordinary channeling during World War II.

So many soldiers today who still suffer from their experiences in wars since Vietnam would be greatly helped if they were more aware of the compassionate otherworldly activity that typically goes on in the battlefield.


The article entitled, “Soldier diaries tell of ghosts intervening in First World War: Canadian historian,” was first published in Canada’s “National Post,” May 28, 2014 and is written by Tristin Hopper.



In the century since, the popular legend has largely been discounted as mere rumor and literary invention, but archival research by Canadian historian Tim Cook has found First World War diaries are more rife with supernatural encounters than one would expect.



















