Annie returned to songwriting, collaborating with Grammy and Emmy award-winning producer Brian Keane. Brian's high regard for her lyrcis inspired Annie to join a writers' workshop. While Annie was writing her first novel, her brother Billy died unexpectedly and began speaking to her from the afterlife. The reader is left asking whether Kagan simply imagined Billy's monologues, or if Kagan is a manipulator exploiting human grief and fear to make money and achieve guru status. Remember this, my darling—remember this. What you achieve on earth is only a small part of the deal. If there's a secret I could whisper, and that you could keep, it would be that it's all inside you already. Every single thing you need. Earth is just a stopover. A kind of game. Make it a star game. If I could give you a gift, it would be to teach you how to stay free inside that game, to find the glory inside yourself, beyond the roles and the drama, so you can dance the dance of the game of life with a little more rhythm, a little more abandon, a little more shaking-those-hips.” ANNIE KAGAN: “In this Afterlife TV conversation, Annie Kagan shares her brother Billy’s amazing experience in the spirit world. It all began about 3 weeks after Billy passed. Annie woke up one morning to find that her brother was talking to her from the other side. Not being a medium, Annie was as surprised as any of us would be and wondered if it was all real. Brother Billy Fingers gave Annie evidence to show her that these conversations she was having with him were real. He also gave her evidence to show her that there really is an afterlife. Moreover, Billy told Annie what his experience is like in the spirit world, much of which was pleasantly surprising and comforting to Annie. Annie shares all of this and more with us in this fascinating episode.

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The core of the book is a journal of messages and "insights" into the after-life as told to the author by her deceased brother. There are also many other events that happen to the author and others that are instigated or related to what her brother is telling her. As someone who is anti-religion (as opposed to atheist), I found the story very interesting and very appealing. Beliefs are big on earth. People collect them. Some of these beliefs are helpful, but others just keep you running around trying to follow rules that others have laid down. They don't have a lot of personal meaning. It's a good idea to sort through your beliefs now and then and throw out the ones that don't serve you.” When her brother Billy died unexpectedly and began speaking to her from the afterlife, Annie agreed to accompany him on his journey through the mysteries of death. As Billy reaches from the “other side” to change his sister’s life and the lives of those around her, he shares secrets about the bliss and wonder to come in the afterlife.In 2004, bad boy Billy Fingers Cohen, a homeless small-time drug dealer and addict in a state of drug induced euphoria, ran into a busy intersection and was killed instantly by a speeding automobile. He left behind a grieving sister. For weeks she struggled with grief and tried to make sense of Billy's seemingly wasted life and tragic death. Billy was a drug addict and led a very hard life. This is what he had to say about it: "How do I know my life wasn't some punishment for my past transgressions? Well, because there's no such thing. You're not on earth to be punished. ... That's a human concept. Something man made up. Humans make up stuff and then they believe it". pg 24, ebook. A continuation along that line of thinking later in the book: "Beliefs are big on earth. People collect them. Some of these beliefs are helpful, but others just keep you running around trying to follow rules that others have laid down. They don't have a lot of personal meaning. It's a good idea to sort through your beliefs now and then and throw out the ones that don't serve you." pg 85, ebook Annie Kagan, a chiropractor and songwriter living in Manhattan, abandoned her hectic city life in search of serenity in a small, secluded house by the bay. When Billy wants to communicate how important something is, he describes it as physically large. For example one afterlife entity is important because it is bigger than the sun. Size is a child's way of understanding importance. Billy's visions are earthbound. He describes his own afterlife as floating around in space past stars and planets, "I'm drifting weightlessly through space with these gorgeous stars and moons and galaxies twinkling all around me." In heaven, people wear robes, and they are better looking "than the best looking actor."

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bestselling author of twelve books including Life After Life—which has sold over 13 million copies world wide. Let Billy Fingers take you on a journey to the world which awaits you when you leave this earthly shell. Through Billy's sister Annie, he takes YOU on a voyage between the realm of possibilities and gives you a glimpse of how life in the spirit world is lived. The time has come to familiarize yourself with the amazing world of Spirit and Billy is your perfect guide." ?James Van Praagh, author of Talking to Heaven and Ghosts Among Us I especially loved the musical links to different composers whom I agree seem to be touched by Heavenly grave in their music scores...It was an encouraging read, but Billy's experiences may have been a "instanced role play" of what he thought afterlife might be designed for his own benefit by a collective consciousness or "higher beings" as he called it. At first, she was reluctant to share what she was hearing, afraid that Billy's voice was her mind's way of holding the grief away or that other people would think she was going insane, but the information imparted became more and more specific until she couldn't explain it away. Through the experience and sharing it, Annie came to believe without a doubt that the spirit continues on after death. She took comfort from it and hopes, with this book, to share that comfort with others who may be grieving or afraid of death itself. When the author received an unexpected birthday visit from her deceased brother, Billy, she agreed to follow him on his evolutionary journey in the afterlife, one she now shares with every reader who wonders, What happens after we die? Publisher’s Marketplace Annie at first resists the ‘reality’ of hearing her dead brother talking to her, but slowly, slowly begins to accept the truth of what she is experiencing. Time and again, Billy gives proof by the ‘coincidences’ that he creates. He tells Annie, for example, to call someone and tells her to take a specific Bach Flower Remedy; she calls, and that person is at that moment in a shop with just that Remedy in her hand. Numerous such instances are woven into this exciting and intriguing story. After ten years as a songwriter and performer Annie returned to college, graduating with honours and became a Doctor of Chiropractic with a successful private practice on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

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Kagan claims that Billy, as she calls her late brother, provided proof to her that his presence was real. For example, Billy communicates cryptic information to Kagan like "Give Tex a coin" and "There is no sunshine without the sun" and "Take Bach flower remedies." Later, Kagan claims, these cryptic sentences came to have great meaning. This meaning convinced Kagan that she wasn't merely imagining that her dead brother was speaking to her; he really was. Finally I don't believe that Billy is the disembodied voice of William Cohen returning to educate humanity because the cosmic secrets Billy "reveals" are secondhand and shallow, example, "Pain is just part of the human experience…our lives are temporary" Also: there is no such thing as good or bad and you have everything you need. I read The Afterlife of Billy Fingers in 90 Minutes… I could not put it down… what a great book, really one of the best in this genre. Arielle Ford A fresh, uplifting thoroughly modern account of life after death. I wholeheartedly recommend you read it. - Gordon Smith - World-renowned medium and author of The Best of Both Worlds Maybe the real question to ask yourself is, do you forgive me? And really, darling, there is no one to forgive, because we signed up to do this dance together before we were born. We weren't acting out some type of I-did-somethingwrong-to-you-in-another-life-and-I'm-paying-for-itnow kind of thing. It doesn't really work like that. That concept of an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth karmic equalizing of the score isn't the real deal, at least not where I am. It's more a kind of experiment chosen for soul-type reasons that humans have an almost impossible time understanding. And not understanding is an important part of the experiment. If people knew the workings of the experiment, it would lose some of its punch, and that losing of punch, well, that's a little bit of what enlightenment is all about.”I applaud his sister Annie, as well, for her courage in creating the book, finding a publisher, and allowing their story to become public. I know how difficult that journey is, and how much she must have overcome and sacrificed to accomplish it. At the same time, as you’ll read, she was the number one beneficiary of Billy’s projected Consciousness, so her rewards were ample as well. She’s done an amazing job of keeping her own story to precisely the right amount of detail, while allowing Billy’s adventures to shine. a work of transcendent wisdom, irreverent humour and sublime beauty. - Mirabi Starr, author of 'Dark Night of the Soul' I do not believe we are to know all the answers to the afterlife and what happens when we die. We are know what we know, no more, no less. People that go through life, not believing are truly missing out on living.

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Don't be overly concerned about how you look in the eyes of others. People will pretty much see you as they will. Play your part in the cosmic drama, but never forget, baby, that you choose the way you see yourself. Don't let others do the casting.” Wow, those are amazing signs. I have never known anyone to have a hummingbird land on their arm. Your son was definitely trying to send you a strong, undeniable message. And to the doubters who think perhaps she made it all up—no way. All my sources and study tell me that Billy Fingers is more real than most of what you’ll find between the covers of books. Even if you believe it came from her own extended Mind, it all rings true, carrying the higher-frequency, healing, energetic imprint of the many Minds who helped make such an interdimensional collaboration possible. You are here: Home / Conversations / Billy Fingers Explains the Afterlife from the Spirit World Billy Fingers Explains the Afterlife from the Spirit World Our servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shownThere are parts of the book that seem to run on and become a bit redundant. I attribute that to her brother trying to put into words things and events that are fundamentally beyond limited human comprehension. It would be like trying to describe what you would see if you were traveling at the speed of light. In 2004, bad boy Billy Fingers Cohen, a homeless small-time drug dealer and addict in a state of drug induced euphoria ran into a busy intersection and was killed instantly by a speeding automobile. He left behind a grieving sister. For weeks she struggled with grief and tried to make sense of Billy’s seemingly wasted life and tragic death. of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars The Afterlife of Billy Fingers: How My Bad-Boy Brother Proved to Me There's Life After Death by Annie Kagan