Dr. Penny Sartori - What is A Near-Death Experience?
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After an insightful introduction about why the subject of NDEs is so worth exploring, each chapter in this book addresses a key question: What are the Characteristics of an NDE, and are there different types? Are all NDE experiences pleasant, or can some be distressing? Who has NDEs and under what circumstances do they occur? How do they affect the people who have them, and how can this change their lives? How can NDEs be scientifically explained arent they just hallucinations? What can we learn from NDEs, and can they change our attitude to life and death? Can a greater understanding of NDEs lead to an evolution in our consciousness and an enhanced sense of spirituality?
As such, this book really brings readers on an exploratory journey through the world of NDEs, challenging preconceptions about what they are and the impact they can have, encouraging us to accept and feel empowered by death, rather than living in fear of it, and giving us useful insights about life along the way.
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#WHAT IS
#WHAT IS
A NEAR-DEATH
EXPERIENCE?
DR PENNY SARTORI
This edition published in the UK and USA 2016 by
Watkins, an imprint of Watkins Media Limited
19 Cecil Court
London WC2N 4EZ
Design and typography copyright Watkins Media Limited 2016
Text copyright Penny Sartori 2016
The author has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior permission in writing from the Publishers.
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Typeset by Manisha Patel
Printed and bound in Germany by GGP Media GmbH
A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN: 978-1-78028-898-7
www.watkinspublishing.com
CHAPTER 1
What are the features of NDEs, and are NDEs the same as OBEs?
CHAPTER 2
How distressing are NDEs?
CHAPTER 3
Who has NDEs and under what circumstances do they occur?
CHAPTER 4
What are the life-changing effects of NDEs?
CHAPTER 5
Can science explain NDEs?
CHAPTER 6
What can NDEs teach those whove never had one?
CHAPTER 7
What are the wider implications of knowing more about NDEs?
My aim in writing this book is to provide an accessible guide to Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) for anyone who would like to learn more about them. Most people have heard of NDEs but the common features of these events and their meaning in the context of our lives are often shrouded in mystery. I passionately believe that NDEs have something to teach all of us, even if we have never ourselves had a near-death experience or anything like it.
This book will help you to
Learn the major features and defining characteristics of NDEs as compared with other spiritual experiences.
Learn the difference between NDEs and out-of-body experiences.
Learn from the stories of those who have experienced an NDE.
Learn to identify an NDE if someone you meet describes one for you.
Discover how to validate the NDE experience for someone whos had one.
Better understand the dying process, and the importance of dying with dignity.
Release your fear of death, and help others release theirs.
Improve your powers of empathy and understanding.
Challenge yourself to explore your own mortality.
Learn the importance of living mindfully understanding how every moment matters.
See how your own actions impact upon those around you.
Consider the interconnectivity of all living things humans, animals and the Earth.
Explore the nature of consciousness, and what it means to be conscious or unconscious.
Feel inspired to show love and compassion in all your undertakings and relationships.
Consider how learning about NDEs can help improve our healthcare provision.
Reflect on different cultures and belief systems exploring both their similarities and differences and how that manifests in experience of NDEs.
Consider your wishes for your own life and death, and how you wish to be treated as you die.
Become more open to talking about death frankly with those around you.
Enjoy the experience of expanding your understanding of spirituality in general.
Be inspired to delve further into this fascinating subject.
From this list you can see that I want to inspire you to consider NDEs as a learning tool for your own life. That applies as much to those whove never had an NDE as it does to those who have. I want to motivate you not only to further your knowledge of NDEs, but also to consider other, related aspects of spirituality. A spark of interest in NDEs can lead to an exploration of your own mortality and consciousness, as well as to an investigation of your own spiritual beliefs and how you formed them. Spirituality gives life meaning it inspires us to live happy and fulfilled lives. It is not the same as religion, which is a doctrine a set of given principles to adopt and interpret in light of your own circumstances. Spirituality invites you to seek your own life truths and to apply them to your life in order that they fulfil you.
In the Introduction I explain how I became interested in NDEs as a nurse and the story of my subsequent research and work with NDErs around the world. delves into the science of NDEs, highlighting the latest medical research into the phenomenon. The final chapters of the book look at what we can learn from NDEs, how we can be more sympathetic toward those whove had them, and what a greater understanding of these experiences could mean for humankind as a whole.
This book is designed to make NDEs as accessible as possible, with the help of the following features:
A Q&A approach that chapter by chapter explores the questions that are often asked about NDEs.
Case Study boxes that share real-life experiences of NDEs.
Focus On boxes that suggest practical ways of putting the lessons learned from NDErs into practice in everyday life.
At the end of the book, a What Next section, including a further reading list, suggests how to continue your investigations there is so much more to say about NDEs and there are so many more fascinating things to learn.
The following abbreviations are used throughout the book for key terms:
NDE near-death experience
NDEr near-death experiencer
OBE out-of-body experience
DBV deathbed vision
STE spiritually transformative experience
For many, death is a taboo subject. We might think that death is for other people perhaps the ill or the elderly and not our concern. Until, that is, something drastic happens: perhaps our own diagnosis of terminal illness, a near-miss accident, or the death of someone we love. Given that death is the only certainty in life, it is strange that we rarely spend time thinking about it. Paradoxically, though, when we do contemplate what it means to die and we think about the process of dying, we open ourselves to discovering the essentials of living a fulfilled, connected life.
After a brush with death, many people report experiences they find hard to put into words. This tongue-tie is often because what happened felt like no experience theyd ever had before. How can any of us describe something for which we have no tangible frame of reference? And if we cant ourselves understand that experience, or expect that anyone else has been through it, how can we share it? The term for an experience that occurs in the moments between life and death is a near-death experience, or an NDE. Historically, many of those whove had one have been reluctant to talk about it. Thats something I want to change.
Advances in healthcare mean that, year on year, far more people are surviving cardiac arrest and critical illness than ever before. It is therefore highly likely that the numbers of people encountering NDEs will also increase. The information about NDEs offered in the following pages will, I hope, help all of us understand such experiences better, with both the experiencers (the NDErs) and those of us who hear NDE accounts benefiting from improved understanding. Learning from others who have been affected by NDEs can lead to great insights into the impermanence of life. This knowledge is incredibly empowering, helping us to enjoy our lives while we have them, and soothing away our fears relating to death.
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