Etched into man’s understanding of the creation of life is the foreboding prospect of death… surrendering one’s mortal flesh to the earth to decay for eternity. But is this apprehension misplaced? Yes! Why? Because it seems that human consciousness survives, once a heart no longer beats, to live on in a place that the co-authors have come to call Beyond the Beyond.

There are a selective few who have been blessed with the “gift” of being able to receive the frequencies and words of those passing through Eternity’s Gate to dwell Beyond the Beyond. And Lynn Van Praagh-Gratton, a nationally-renowned psychic-medium, is one such person; the beneficiary of a “gift” inherited from her maternal familial line…great-aunt, grandmother, and mother—and now passed on to her son, Dennis Jr.

In the architecture of their collaboration, Lynn and Brett have been inspired by a message conveyed two thousand years ago by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a Roman philosopher and statesman, who wrote: The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. And, through a combination of two books with an interwoven narrative, they seek to offer understanding, healing, and hope to those who have “momentarily” lost touch with loved ones.

In The Hand (Part I)…A Young Man’s Search for Eternity’s Gate, Brett Stephan Bass introduces us to Emerson Alexander Weiss who interrupts a promising career as a theoretical physicist to fi nd a deeper spiritual meaning in life that dispenses with conventional teachings of science, religion, and philosophy.

In The Hand (Part II)…A Young Man Discovers What Lies Beyond Eternity’s Gate, the co-authors advance meaning to the phrase “Life After Death” in order to bring hope to those despairing of optimism...wisdom to wipe away confounding confusion…and healing love to those grieving the loss of one no longer present.

Although the co-authors, at times, employ elements of a fictional sequence of events, the body of both works lies in personal experiences and reflective beliefs designed to leave in the reader’s mind that: (1) There is a unifying “oneness” in the composition of the universe fed by the vitality of “light and love”; (2) Death is an illusion fed by misguided fear; (3) Passing through Eternity’s Gate is a beginning and not an ending; and (4) Life on Earth is intended to prepare us all to live in a domain presently hidden from view called Beyond the Beyond where we will be embraced by the Source, the universal repository of all-knowing and all-loving.