Near Death Experiences Books

The author is so nakedly truthful about this intimate experience of life and death, one can't help feeling connected with him and his family. A great book for anyone seeking solace in a similar situation. Courageously written and elegantly presented

Joe Gallenberger gives us a thoughtful and compassionate view of what it is like to live with and go through the suicide of a family member. He shows the emotions of himself and his family very vividly as they go through the stages of living with a person who has suicidal tendencies, and dealing with the aftermath of death, putting it all into perspective. This is a most insightful view of everyone involved and I highly recommend it for anyone who has lived through the death of a loved one. It is the perfect present to give to people who have experienced a sudden death of a friend or family member. I have given many copies as gifts to friends in need and shall continue to do so. Joe Gallenberger has created a gift for all of us and I am grateful! Gari Carter(GariCarter@aol.com)

very riveting book. I'd recommend this to everyone. Gives hope to those who have lost loved one

A fascinating look into near-death experiences in children that will make you hopeful about what awaits us in the next life, and will get you thinking more about how you live in this life. As you can guess, the book raises more questions than it is able to answer. But rather than try to force an explanation the author accepts this and leaves room for each of us to draw some of our own conclusions. It's an easy, thought-provoking read that dares to go against some of the cold, scientific cynicism so common in our society today.

Picture riding a bicycle across the country with your dog and being stoned the entire time. You probaly have to be a stoner and free thinker to truly appreciate this book. It is a definate must read.

I just completed this book, "Travels with Lucy" about a man, a very brave one and his small dog traveling across the U.S. via bicycle. It is a great read! It is well put together, and this man can actually write coherently and humorously all while he has you sitting on the edge of your seat turning the pages. My heart always went out to poor Lucy, the poor mutt he dragged along with. But, somehow, she loved the traveling life, too!

This book needs to get out there. It needs a professional editor and publisher- it could be a movie with the right connections.
I travel the U.S. and Canada by plush motorhome and I think I am roughing it! This guy has it all over me!
Buy it! You will enjoy it.

I read this book perhaps 15 years ago and it still stands today as one of the most interesting writings on the topic. Lund shows that consciousness and death are inextricably linked in such a way that survival of consciousness beyond death is intellectually defensible. The most curious part of the book is the discussion about brain states and consciousness. Mainstream science assumes consciousness is *produced* by the brain. Yet an equally plausible scenario is that the brain is a tranducer or receiver of consciousness whose source may lie outside the brain itself, like a television set which is the receiver and not the source of the signal. Smashing the TV may destroy the set but not the signal which lives on. So where's the evidence for this mode of consciousness? Lund turns this argument around and asks, Where's the evidence that consciousness is generated by the brain? The answer is surprising and one of the reasons this book should be read widely.

Most books on the survival of death simply review the vast amount of material in other books regarding the issue. There will be chapters on NDE's, OBE's, apparitions, reincarnation, and communication through mediums, and the objections of the skeptics will largely be ignored, or briefly discussed. Dr Lund's book is different.

Yes, there are chapters devoted to summarizing the available evidence, but these comprise only about half of the book. The rest of it (the first half) discusses in great detail (and with great fairness) the various skeptical objections to survival. All are shown to be based on unwarranted assumptions. Lund concentrates mostly on the skeptical objection that consciousness is produced by the brain, and therefore cannot exist without it. Probably the best chapter in the book is called "Is Consciousness Produced?" in which he shows that the argument that consciousness is produced by the brain is fundementally flawed. The second half of the book is mostly dedicated to discussing empirical evidence that seems to suggest that consciousness can at times operate independantly of the brain in the living, and that the consciousness of of least many of the deceased has in fact survived death of the body.

The book is philosophically sophisticated, but written for the layperson. If I can think of any criticism, it is that the book should be updated and republished, because since 1985 new evidence has been gathered (NDEs in individuals with flat EEG readings, veridical NDEs in the blind, repeatable experiments with ESP - see website for Jessia Utts, UC Davis) that further strengthens the case for dualism.

A great easy read about a courageous woman who hit the bottom and pulled herself up by sheer will. Hard work rewarded her in many ways especially financially until that one unforseen day, where an accident would refocus her life into what is truly meaningful in life. The book is a must read on self-reflection.

This book has it humor and spirituality. A Must read for those questioning their own direction. The author takes you on her own jounrey with spiritual growth. I would recomened this book to anyone for a gift for those who have lost a loved one. It helps shed light on some details about afterlife.

Funny. Very funny. Clever and witty too. Robbins should definitely not be embarrassed.

Biased it may be, as I have known d v robbins since we were in high school together, I read the "rough copy", and then the finished product. d v has always had a "warped" sense of humor, as I do, too, but this just proves that some things get better with age! d v does a wicked rip on "Embraced By The Light", a best-seller by B. Eadie, and also throws in a few digs at those who "channel"--nothing is sacred, and d v proves it. If you need a good laugh, get this book!

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A wonderfull book on Geo energies,i ever seen in last 8 years. a good relation between geopathy & electromagnatic is explained. how these stress can affect human body retham. good detail to nutralise these stresses.

It is only to be expected that seven hundred years ago, people did things differently than they do them now. We have difficulty viewing so far back, certainly because language and culture were different, but mostly because detailed records are scarce. Robert Bartlett has provided a unique solution to give us as good an idea as possible "...of the spoken words of the past in the time before the tape recorder" in _The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages_ (Princeton University Press). A professor of medieval history, he has examined closely a peculiar event for which there is rich documentation, a judicial commission which was an inquest into a supposed miracle. While it might seem that such an inquest would be too arcane to give us much of an idea of medieval times, Bartlett has found that the sometimes conflicting testimony of witnesses and the process of the inquiry gives us a window through which we can almost see and hear our ancient ancestors and understand matters important to them. Bartlett has produced an enjoyable volume of time travel.

It was probably in 1290 that William Cragh was hanged in Swansea. William Cragh was perhaps merely a "notorious brigand," but in the words of the English rulers of his region he was one of the rebels "in the war between the Welsh and the lord king." In fact, he was hanged three times. The first time, the rope broke. The second time, the gallows from which it was suspended broke. The third time seemed to have worked just fine. His body was taken down and carried to a house in Swansea for preparation for burial. Its face was black, its eyes bulging, its black and swollen tongue extended. The son of the baron who had condemned him confirmed that William Cragh was dead. But he gradually came back to life. This particular revivification was fraught with religious meaning. William Cragh on his way to the gallows gave a prayer for his life to Thomas de Cantilupe, the recently deceased Bishop of Hereford. Thus, his return to life had the makings of a religious miracle, and an inquest had to be done to make sure. The interrogation of witnesses is the backbone for Bartlett's book. Along the way, we learn about attitudes towards saints, the means of measuring distance and time, and other details of the way the participants lived.

Thomas de Cantilupe got made a saint by a very long process. Canonization was requested seventeen years before the inquest actually happened in 1307, and then there was a long process of approval before Thomas was made a saint in 1320. This was a time of flux for the papacy, with five different popes and years when there was no pope, which partially explains the delay. What shooed Thomas in was a consistent public relations campaign from the local Bishop and the fellows he enlisted, sending fan letters. Also, King Edward I had strong interest, because he had known Thomas personally. Thomas has served on Edward's royal council, and Edward was eager (as he himself wrote), "... to have as a sympathetic patron in heaven him whom we had in our household on earth." While Bartlett's fascinating book tells a lot about the intricate process of sanctification, it tells a lot more about the people of medieval times and their world view.

It's bizarre that we would know so much about, say, Lady Mary de Briouze (one of the principal witnesses in the sanctification case Dr. Bartlett here serves up) when we know so little about, say, Shakespeare, for Lady Mary lived her magnificent imperious life a full three hundred years before Shakespeare's birth. And as Dr. Bartlett complains, much less is known about the lives of eminent women in comparison to their male counterparts. The martyrdom of William Cragh, and his prayers to Thomas de Cantihope, led to a gathering of and the muracle, if you ask me, is that so much of their testimony has been preserved verbatim.

Dr. Bartlett points out that it isn't merely the facts the witnesses reel off that are so interesting, it's the way that memory fails or comes to their aid in unexpected places. It's almost as though memory worked in different ways in the 13th century than it does now, so we are constantly wondering why Lady Mary, when asked, couldn't answer yes or no to what seem like the simplest questions: were her children alive in the year of Cragh's death, for example. Surely she could calculate that far back, it had only been a number of years. Dr. Bartlett speculates that it's possible that her "I can't remembers" have clues iembedded in them, clues to their larger psychic and financial lives. Maybe people didn't have, back then, the supreme attachment to children that they do now, or that society expects of us, and that might explain Lady Mary's extreme vagueness about the status of her children, for she might well be dithering about trying to remember if she owned a particular scarf in 1289, not a daughter. In such ways, worthy of a Henry James, Bartlett brings every verbal statement under the eye of a scientist, examining each for its textures and potentials.

Almost as interesting, even if, in the final analysis, not quite so, is the detail with which Bartlett runs us through what he calls the "Cantilupe process," the steps by which the medieval church proclaimed its saints. The story of the hanged man is quite arresting all by itself; sliced down from the gallows three times, Cragh found himself coming to life again after entreaty to the recently deceased Cantilupe. Witnesses testified his skin had gone completely black in death, even his tongue; and yet Lady Mary's stepson averred, that Clagh's rosy complexion was restored within a few hours.

This interesting Australian import collects stories of people who have found themselves in life-and-death situations...and survived. The 37 accounts range from being caught in an avalanche to being shot in the heart with a nail gun, rescuing a child from a flooded drain to being caught in a cyclone, weighing 500 pounds to giving birth to quintuplets, being brainwashed by a cult to losing everything in a fire. It makes for fascinating, compelling reading.

The stories found in this book first appeared in the 'How It Feels' section of THE AGE newspaper. They run six to ten pages. While most deal with horrifying events, a few are more lighthearted, such as the chapter on being an Animal Psychic!

What I found most interesting about this book is the underlying Australian "No worries, mate" mentality that permeates all the stories. It seems no matter how awful the event - the being bitten by a shark chapter takes the cake! - these wonderful men and women kept their chins up and pressed on.

By turn these stories are shocking, funny and amazing. They show ordinary human beings caught in extraordinary situations not only surviving but triumphing! A good read, an uplifting read. Recommended.

How It Feels to be Attacked by a Shark is an illuminating (and often horrifying) look into about some of the most extreme life-or-death situations. You most likely will never be stroke by lightning, or lose a leg, but these tales are amazing, and if nothing else make you appreciate life a little more.

This book by Bhagwan Ra Afrika was my introduction to the subject of death and dying. It literally changed my life! It sparked my interest in a most profound subject and caused me to then examine other books on the subject. This book can hold its own with any of them. I read Rinpoche's "Tibetan Book of Living and Dying," and Mr. Afrika's treatment was just as profound and thorough! Don't be deceived by how it begins and the conversational tone; each chapter picks up momentum! This is truly a profound teaching!

My personal favorite chapter is "The Motherhood of All Beings." Beautiful! It really brought home the necessity of seeing all sentient beings and myself as one. Secondly, I liked Chapter 5, "Meditation: The Art of Dying While Living." Though I am only a novice at meditation, the chapter explained many mysteries about it, very concisely. I have read this book at least twice and each time I revisit the material, as the author himself stated, I gain a new insight!

I recommend this book to all who are seeking ways to truly live a spiritual life. I have already purchased three extra copies to give to friends. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend this book higher than five stars. Though the author seems to be largely unknown, with the publication of this book, I think that will change! I LOVED THIS BOOK! The extensive glossary also helped to understand the foreign words.

This magnificently written book ranks up there with Sogyal Rinpoche's "TIBETAN BOOK OF LIVING AND DYING" and Evans Wentz's "TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD" and is soon to be an all time favorite reading on the significance of dying and the death experience. In my opinion, it is even better! I have enjoyed reading this book immensely and would recommend it to everyone who has ever thought seriously about their life as it relates to them eventually dying, and what can be done to better be prepared for the ultimate event, death. We here in the west, have a very niave understanding of the significance that death holds for us all. In fact, our society reflects the way that we are really not taking death into account in any spiritual sense. Not to contemplate seriously about the facticity or our death and mortality will only cause us to continue to live a life that is very superficial. There really is no way to rightly "prioritize" the concerns of your life and living if you have not taken Death into consideration(preferably of a daily basis). The "pondering" of the reality of death will make you become very serious about all of the issues that are being postponed under the assumption that there will always be time(Kal) to get things done. This book will help you to understand(the way the ancient Egyptians and the Tibetan lama's understood)not only the significance that death holds, but also what the real purpose of our human birth is truly about. It is a book heavily needed in the world today to help bring about a quality of spiritual living that would allow for re-emergence of a "regal, loving, and wisdom minded community of people liken to what existed during the "Golden age." This book is definitely "THE BOMB" on the subject of life and death and the true quest for authentic spirituality!