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Alzheimer's Disease causes Pete to lose the ability to speak and understand others. So how is his sister talking to him? When Pete was asleep, Elizabeth was in hypnotic trance, communicating through a psychic practice known as automatic writing. Bigger Pete is Elizabeth Bodien's parapsychological memoir about communicating with her brother over the last eight years of his life-and into the afterlife. Families and friends of people with Down syndrome will relish the loving communication between Pete, who had Down syndrome, and his sister Elizabeth. Caregivers of people with late-stage Alzheimer's will also recognize their own struggles in this personal story. Others in conversation with Elizabeth include Pete's deceased parents and Pete's higher self, identified as Bigger Pete. How can you communicate with someone who has passed on? In Bigger Pete: Conversations Between Life and Afterlife, Bodien addresses the question by writing from her personal experience and aiding those dealing with the loss of a loved one. Are you curious about what happens when people die and what happens next? Bigger Pete might not have the only answer, but it does have at least one answer.

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"Elizabeth Bodien, who grew up in the ""burned-over"" district of western New York, now lives near Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania. When only seventeen years old, she travelled and studied around the world with the International School of America. In the '60s, she lived in Berkeley, California and graduated with a cultural anthropology degree from the University of California. Her graduate studies culminated with degrees in consciousness studies from John F. Kennedy University and the history and phenomenology of religion from the Graduate Theological Union, where her final work was entitled ""Terra Incognita: The Necessity of Wilderness.""Bodien was an English instructor in Japan, an organic farmer in the Oregon mountains, a childbirth instructor in West Africa, and a Montessori teacher, among other work. She taught cultural anthropology and critical thinking before retiring. After retirement, she earned an MFA degree in poetry from Western Colorado State University. Bodien is the author of two books of poetry: Blood, Metal, Fiber, Rock and Oblique Music: A Book of Hours and four poetry chapbooks from various publishers. Her poetry has appeared in Frogpond, Crannóg and Parabola, among other publications and in Across the Long Bridge: An Anthology of Award-Winning Poems, and Tanka Society of America Anthology. She has appeared on radio and TV and has taught workshops in poetry and poetics. Journeys with Fortune: A Tale of Other Lives, which was published in 2019, is a nonfiction collection of the past lives she relived while in hypnotic trance."

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