Duane F. Smith

At the age of 41, the author was returned from an after-death experience to find most of what he once held dear in his life, now had little meaning. Prior to being told he had only five months to live by a Stanford medical specialist, he had believed he had life all figured out. Not having any religious or spiritual beliefs, he had thought that "He who dies with the most toys wins," and by that standard he was doing very well. However, now facing death, he expected only oblivion.

However, when he died, it wasn't oblivion after all. Instead, he found himself in the afterlife being greeted by his two deceased earthly grandfathers, and by other entities he had known and loved in other times and other places. Later, when he was offered an opportunity to return to this life, he wanted no part of it. However, he eventually he agreed to come back for two reasons. First, to fulfill a commitment he had made to his two daughters before their current incarnation. Secondly, he agreed to come back help locate a repository of ancient wisdom, to be brought into the current light of day, and it's story told.

After he returned he had no idea what he was to do, or where to look. And, if he find it, having been dyslexic as a child, he knew he couldn't ever write about it. However, his soul guides, Frank, and Amos, had other ideas. Over the coming years, they began him on a series of earthly assignments, designed to teach rudimentary inner guidance, in increasing levels of difficulty.

Next, they gave him some warm-up writing assignments, writing about his near death experience, in preparation for what was ahead. His first book, "Dying to Really Live" is about the events leading up to his terminal diagnosis, his waiting to die, and what death was finally like. It also is about who was waiting for him in the afterlife and what he experienced while he was there. Then it covers the grief he encountered on his return to this world, after where he had just been. It also tells of his being take back to the afterlife and what he was shown, when he asked if there really was a hell.

Next, he was asked to write twp more book on the assignments he was given to teach him the use of Inner Guidance. Currently the first book, "Dying to Really Live" is available on Amazon. The second and third books are finished and are soon to be published.

When he had completed the lessons on inner guidance and his writing assignments, Frank and Amos knew he was ready to fulfill what he had been sent back to do; to locate the repository of ancient wisdom and write about.

After all that had already happened, where here his inner guidance now led him, was startling. And, the hope for the next couple of decades that he discovered in the Millennial Prophecies, brought his 30 quest into clear focus.

All four books will soon be on Amazon, and are to soon be published in one unabridged volume by Balboa Press, a division of Hay House Publishing. Watch for it.