The Lizard in Your Mind's Eye: A story about how the spirit world guides us

Blending lived experience with fictionalised storytelling, The Lizard in Your Mind's Eye offers an insight into the misapprehended belief system of spiritualism.

The story follows the life of a young medium whose experiences with spirit began in childhood, detailing her poignant - sometimes chilling, often amazing, mostly heart-warming - encounters with the Other Side, highlighting that as spiritual beings, our earthly lives are existentially intertwined with the spirit world, and enriched by it - if only we'd listen.

The story begins in the future, in the wilderness of northwest Canada, where she and her young son have journeyed following a prophecy by her late friend and mentor, Pearl. The timeline alternates between past experiences and their journey to a place called Rainbow Lake.

The story provides profound, little-known truths about the Other Side, challenging our own perceptions of reality, the paranormal, and life after death. It brings to the forefront of our minds life's ubiquitous moral conundrums.

Underlying the storyline is a subtle narrative exploring the meaning of life, encouraging us to trust our intuition or gut instinct - our way of 'knowing', as well as being a sure-fire means that our spirit guides communicate with us - and notice the myriad signs from spirit in our everyday lives which we so often brush off as coincidence or our imagination.

The author, a religious studies graduate and journalist, offers perspectives on institutionalised religion, psychic development and mediumship, the debate between science and religion, how we can discern the difference between imagination and messages from spirit, the role of spirit guides, the existence of aliens, and the notions of free will, mindfulness, manifestation and energy healing.

The author reveals secrets of the spirit world in the hope that we will feel more enlightened, and more connected with our own loved ones in spirit, by the end.

The main experiences are presented as the author's, but on the whole, belong to someone else, close to her, for whom she is honouring their wish for anonymity. Several other people generously shared their truths for the story, which immeasurably helped the author fulfil her objective of presenting as broad an insight into the spirit world as possible.

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The views expressed in the story are those of the author, and no offense is meant towards those holding alternative views. The author endeavoured to show the utmost respect for the First Nations people of Canada when mentioning their spirituality and their plight in society over the years.