The Other Side An Account of my Experiences with Psychic Phenomena - James A. Pike / Diane Kennedy - 1968 - Hardcover - Doubleday & Company, Inc.

Is it possible to communicate with the dead? Can we who are alive talk to those who are "on the other side"? If so, what would this say about the meaning of life and reality?
The news has been widely headlined that Bishop James A. Pike one of America's best-known clergymen not only believes this is possible, but that he has in fact communicated with his son who committed suicide.
The front-page news has caused storms of controversy and conjecture, to a great extent because the story-astonishing and uncanny as it actually happened has from the outset been slanted: important facts, frequently reported in bits and pieces, have been obscured. This has caused the Bishop to write down his own report a complete and dispassionate account of all the events that not only followed, but also preceded, his son's death, thus highlighting the other side of a long series of events which were illuminated, but never penetrated, by the lights of news and television
THE OTHER SIDE is a moving tion of a father's efforts to save his son from enslavement to psychedelic drugs; a tragic story of a young gifted man's premature death; a fling story of poltergeist occurrences which led the father and other witnesses to believe that from beyond the grave his son was trying to get in touch; a detailed account of this communication proceeded a time when the father was under cusation of "heresy" for believing too little. Above all, it is an analysis by one of America's keenest minds of what aH these experiences may mean.
THE OTHER SIDE certainly reads like a suspenseful novel. Yet every phase of the narration is painstakingly documented by eyewitness accounts of the strange occurrences which led the Bishop to consult mediums in England and America, and by several word-for-word tape-recordings of such
The reader will find here and lucid exploration of psychic phenomena.



The Right Reverend James A. Pike, Bishop of the Episcopal Church, is a staff member of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. He served as a senior trial attorney for the U. S. Security and Exchange Committee and was an officer in Naval Intelligence during the last war.
He was head of the Department of Religion of Columbia University, Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, and Bishop in the diocese of California. He has taught in three law schools and three theological seminaries. In the past ten years, he has served as chairman for the California Advisory Committee to the U. S. Civil Rights Commission. He is the author of many books on law, theology and ethics, including Doing The Truth, You and The New Morality and If This be Heresy.

Diane Kennedy, a graduate of Stanford and Columbia Universities and a certified teacher with training in education and theology, is Executive Director of the New Focus Foundation of Santa Barbara. She has served the Methodist Church as a teacher in Uruguay and director of youth work at First Methodist Church in Palo Alto.