Marion Rome

Dear Beautiful Soul,

Thank you for stopping by this page.

If you are scared of death, don’t be.

If you are grieving the loss of a loved one, be happy for them: they are in a place that is magnificent beyond description.

If like me you had an NDE and, as a result of it, are absolutely convinced that anything man-made such as science, religion and “spiritual” beliefs and books are miles away from revealing the truth about this life, you have come to the right place.

To those who have already read and enjoyed Beyond Sight – a very big thank YOU for your kindness. Your reviews have made me cry at times – not because of your compliments to my book but because I am happy I could help you with your loss and/or give you hope for this life, depending on your situation.

Last but not least, I do not tweet, blog, vlog or spend my days counting the number of “likes” I get on a Facebook page. I leave all of that to the hundreds of “gurus” and “NDE specialists” out there. I am fully occupied, but in a different manner. My books are not just books. They are the pure reflection of my thinking as a result of my near-death experience and the way I’ve lived my life ever since. Therefore, I am far too busy sharing a good laugh with my best friend, making pancakes for my neighbour, cheering up someone who is going through a hard time, or, as you’ll see in Through the Light, wondering why people worry so much, and actively trying to make the poor and underprivileged parts of this world into better places to live. Any gesture – small or big – that can bring happiness into another’s existence is what I live for. I encourage you to do the same. Spread the joy and love as much as you can through actual actions. It is so worth it and so much more important than just talking about it. The bigger our love here, the better our future in the mesmerising parallel dimension of this world – it is the same world.

To all of you – we’ll meet one day through, in and by the Light. Until then, I already love you in ways that words just can’t express.

Marion

Note: I have chosen to use a pen name for several reasons.

Firstly, I do not want to send my mother to jail, no matter how absolutely evil, abusive and dangerous she is. As you will see in this book, she is a narcissist in the clinical sense of the term. She is what psychiatrists call a malignant narcissist, and as such she has done truly awful things to me and my family for which she could still be going to jail under Belgian laws if the authorities were made aware of her criminal acts. Several readers have been wanting to know more about her and why I still seem so affected by her despite my wonderful and life-changing experience. I finished writing a book about her in 2018, and I am in the process of editing it as of 2019, but the reason why I have chosen not to publish it yet is quite simple: she could still be prosecuted for some of the mental and physical abuse she subjected my dad, my sister and myself to and that we endured many years ago and still do. Finally, I truly fear reprisals if I ever exposed her publicly. She would have no qualms about destroying me and my happiness.

Secondly, I want to protect my sister’s identity. She has quite a high-profile job in her industry, and I don’t think it would be fair to her to have the whole world aware of all of her family’s drama and dirty laundry. I’m also thinking of other people in my family who certainly don’t deserve to have everyone know about my mother and the crazy and dangerous sister, cousin, aunt or niece she is to them. As I am typing these words, my great-aunt is requesting some kind of restraining order against my mother…

Last but not least, I enjoy a quiet and private life that I fiercely protect. A few readers have wondered why they couldn’t find anything about me online. Well, there are two answers to that question. The first reason is obvious: I use a pen name. However, even under my real name, it is quite hard to find anything about me. In 2019, as I am writing this note, I am only 37 years old, but I guess I am still “old-fashioned” in my thinking. Despite the big oversharing era we currently live in, I see absolutely no point in sharing publicly anything about me. If my friends and family want to see me, they should just show up at my door, and they’d better keep any pictures they take of me having dinner with them private, or better still, enjoy the said dinner without any smartphone camera. This is a decision I made in the early 2010s the day I realised that the line between private and professional life was slowly disappearing, and also when I learned that Mark Zuckerberg became a billionaire. You only have to put two and two together to understand how the Facebook CEO became a billionaire (hint: by selling our personal info to big companies). The Cambridge Analytica scandal was not at all a surprise to me and I expected the dishonest practice to be lasting for years in Facebook’s headquarters and offices well before it came to the public’s attention. I’ve made a conscious choice not to contribute to these anti-democratic practices, and Facebook is just an example. I believe we should fear Google even more, so yes indeed, you’ll have a hard time finding things about me online even under my real name.

Finally, digital burnout is a real medical condition I experienced in the past and that I never want to suffer from ever again. Every time you check your smartphone for notifications, or even browse the internet, your brain sees danger and sends a signal to your adrenal glands to release a stress hormone called cortisol, which can have devastating effects on the body in chronically high levels. I choose not to expose myself to unnecessary and avoidable stress, and I believe I have every right to do this, whether or not some readers like it. I encourage you to do the same thing. Most of my close friends have too decided not to be slaves to technology and the worldwide web, and I can tell that they are on the whole happier and healthier than those who can no longer live outside of it. Also, they miss out much less on their young kids growing up (yes, I know some parents who missed their toddler’s first steps because they were busy updating their Facebook status). Plus, let’s face it, we don’t know yet the long-term effects of all that technology.

So, if you choose to read this book to learn more about life, love, pain, suffering and forgiveness, please go ahead. If, however, you read it in the hopes of finding me online, you are going to be disappointed. Either way, I hope that you experience lots of love in your own life.