The Beyond Is Part Of The Here Now eBook

The Beyond is Part of the Here Now is a spiritual memoir. Raleigh structures the book as encounters that move across decades, from seeing Santa's sleigh in Japan to visions of Jesus, ghosts, unexplained time loss, UFO's, angelic rescues, and visits from the dead.

The strongest through line in the book is that love is the force that ties the visible world to the invisible one. Loss doesn't end connection. It changes its form. That's why one of the most revealing lines in the book is also one of its simplest: "God is alive." That conviction reaches into grief, memory, loyalty, and even the small tenderness of being found again by a beloved animal.

The book also has an interesting tonal mix. Raleigh can move from scripture and metaphysics to Frank Sinatra's preferred drink, from a near abduction in Los Angeles to a cowboy ghost in Wyoming, without sounding like she thinks these belong to separate worlds.It feels like how a person builds a life around the conviction that the world is fuller, stranger, and more connected than it first appears.