Beyond Reason: Lessons from the Loss of a Gifted Child

Sometimes people enter our lives and change us forever.

Author Gregg Korbon’s son, Brian, was such a person. In Beyond Reason, Gregg shares the story of his sweet and brilliant nine-year-old child. Though healthy, Brian told his parents he was going to die before he reached “double digits” (age ten). Six months later, after scoring the first run of his Little League career, he collapsed.

Though his death garnered media attention, the mysteries before and after his death were never shared. Brian foresaw his future, gave himself a going away party, and left good-bye gifts and a note telling his parents not to worry about him. After his death, Brian’s influence continued. His father — a rational physician who did not believe in metaphysical phenomena — embarked on a mystical journey through grief into a creative world he did not know existed. What he learned by healing stretched the capabilities of his reasonable mind. For anyone who wants to know how grieving can become a journey of wonder and hope, Beyond Reason can guide you.

This thought-provoking and beautifully written memoir presents powerful images, ideas, and emotions. The story’s unfolding is impossible to anticipate: it demands pages be turned, all the way to the end.

Praise for Beyond Reason

A powerful, moving story – sensitively told. From a gifted child’s tragic death emerge unexpected blessings, revealing how he had as much to teach in death as in life. A story that challenges some of our fundamental assumptions about the nature of reality.

Peter Russell
author of The Global Brain and From Science to God

A beautiful story, beautifully told.

Joseph Chilton Pearce
author of Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, and The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of Spirit

A remarkable book, this story is a reminder of how much we learn from our encounters with death … a space in our lives where the authentic breaks through time and again. Brian left a clear trail of evidence that … our world is far greater than our material reality.

Catherine Austin Fitts
former Managing Partner, Dillon, Reed and Co.; former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; and President of Solari.com

Incredibly powerful and moving.

Dave Isay
MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow, Peabody Award winner and author of Listening Is an Act of Love

Beyond Reason dramatically portrays a physician’s transformation, through the death of his son, from the typical “reasonable” mind-set into the experience of mystery and magic. The story is powerful and the insights, profound.

John W. Travis, MD, MPH
and author of Wellness and Wellness Workbook

Beyond Reason - Lessons from the Loss of a Gifted Child by Gregg Korbon, MD