[Alex Murphy]

Although he is commonly known as the man who talks to the dead, he also talks to Mary and has been devoted to her since as a teenager he was drawn to accounts of a woman in Queens, N.Y., who said she was receiving messages from Mary and seeing apparitions. He joined the crowds that gathered in her neighborhood to share in the experience.

“I don’t know if it was real, but what I got out of it was such amazing unity and prayer. It didn’t matter if it was real.”
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The idea, or “message,” for the book came from “the Boys,” his spirit guides, while he was on a book tour. “At that precise moment, the phone in my room rang,” he writes, explaining that it was his publisher asking if he could talk to him. “I told him to come on by, and I immediately started trying to figure out how to tell him what my spirit guides had just told me to do. I was sure that he’d say it was a crazy idea.”

For a guy who supposedly talks to a lot of dead people, I have to wonder if he's ever contacted one currently residing in Hell.
/sarcasm>