Michele Decker
life on the other side
Editions "J'ai lu"
Preface by Didier Van Cauwelaert (excerpt): “Michèle Decker is a gendarme's wife, she raises her three children and cultivates her vegetable garden in a remote village; he is an all-in-one person, self-taught, down to earth and hands-on. In April 1984 the afterlife erupted in its daily grind. "The other side", rather, as she calls it with a mixture of caution and modesty. And then begins a double, a triple life. The mediumistic consultations, the “cleanings” of haunted houses, the radio guidance of wandering souls, the requests for healing when medicine admits its impotence, all on a voluntary basis. I try to be objective, torn between my instinctive distrust of sighted people and my sympathy for Michèle's honesty, torn between the living and the dead, the pressure of her family; between his instinctive generosity and the temptation to throw everything away.”