Review #89
"Death is a funny thing. It brings out the best and worst in people. It casts light on the truth and makes life blindingly clear." Her visions have helped solve crimes; her instincts have helped find missing people; she can predict future events and sense your thoughts. These are some of the extraordinary gifts that define Allison DuBois, the real-life medium, wife, and mother whose life is the inspiration for the hit NBC television series "Medium".
When she was six years old, Allison became aware that she saw and heard people that others did not. The purpose of her gifts became clearer when Allison worked as an intern (while attending college to become an attorney) in the homicide bureau of the district attorney's office and found that she visualized the crime as she handled the evidence.
In her book, Allison shares stories of her encounters with people who have passed and her adventures as a profiler for various law enforcement organizations. With wit and compassion, Allison shows us what it is like to live with these special gifts and talents and also tells about her struggle to live a normal life as a wife and mother. She shows how learning to accept her own gifts has helped her accept the unique gifts of others and how her compelling desire to relieve the pain of others has helped define her own life, a life committed to the search for ultimate truth.
Allison has been scientifically tested, (she spent four years participating in various tests at the University of Arizona to assist them in their studies of mediums and psychic phenomena) and determined to be a true medium.
If you have ever questioned whether there is an afterlife, this book may help you decide. I wish it had been more of an autobiography than it was, but it provided interesting material.
I read this book because I’ve watched "Medium" since its inception and was curious to know how much was ‘real’ and how much was the writers’ imagination. This is what I believe to be the answer: Allison DuBois, her aerospace engineer husband, Joe, and their children, Ariel, Brigitte and Marie are real. Allison does help law enforcement to solve criminal and missing persons cases, but does not actually work in the DA’s office on a daily basis. Also, she states in her interviews that she gets most of her visions while awake even though the action in the TV show is based, mostly, on what she dreams.
Sooooo, I found my answer.
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