Journalist Sarah Bullen and her filmmaker husband Llewellyn seemed like a golden couple, with successful careers and two lovely children. But then Llewellyn discovers that he has a brain tumour. As he pursues a shamanic path to fight the cancer, they are catapulted into a world of ritual and ceremony. With hospitals, surgery and treatments comes a wilder journey of spiritual searching. Then the impossible happens: she falls ill. While in a coma, Sarah travels through near-death and into other realms and worlds.

She comes back with a message and a spark to follow – to choose joy over fear. It becomes a roadmap to allow her to write a new life story and call in a new way of living rooted in bliss, joy and love.

Taking us from Hout Bay to the Mediterranean and back, Sarah’s story is in turn sad, funny and magical, filled with laughter and tears. From African rituals in the bush to a Greek island of sex and celebration, Love & Above is filled with wild rapture and infinite possibility.

What happens when we die? How are some people able to see or communicate with spiritual worlds beyond our own? Do they have any real answers? The world is increasingly looking to people who can give glimpses into new realms of meaning.

Sarah Bullen, who has had a life-altering near-death experience herself, explores these mysteries as she gathers riveting and radical stories of people from Africa, who have crossed to the ‘other side’ or those who can contact it. This book offers original interviews with a
fascinating collection of teachers with special abilities, individuals who have gone through near-death and those who can communicate across worlds using mediumship, gifts, trance and plants.

Meet and learn from a man who woke up on a stretcher on the way to the morgue, a spiritual teacher who survived two near-death experiences on an operating table, a psychic rabbi, an influencer who communicates with the departed, a former corporate executiveturned-
sangoma who runs a traditional clinic, and shamans and neoshamans from West and southern Africa.