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9781476757063 English 1476757062 People everywhere carry with them extraordinary, deeply comforting experiences that arrived at the moment when they most needed relief: when they lost a loved one. These experiences can include clear messages from beyond, profound and vividly beautiful visions, mysterious connections and spiritual awareness, foreknowledge of a loved one's passing-all of which evade explanation by science and logic. Most people keep these transcendent experiences secret-deathbed experiences, Nearing Death Awareness, and shared death experiences. Individuals and families guard them for fear they will be discounted by hyperrational scrutiny. Yet these very common occurrences have the power to console, comfort, and even transform our understanding of life and death. Prompted by her family's surprising, profound experiences around the death of her father and her sister, reporter Patricia Pearson sets out on an open-minded inquiry, a rare journalistic investigation of Nearing Death Awareness. Pearson discovers that roughly half of bereaved people, as well as nurses, hospice workers, soldiers, and others who constantly observe the dying, have had intimations of enduring bonds that can radically help people to process their grief and their fear. Opening Heaven's Door offers deeply affecting stories of messages from the dying and the dead in a fascinating work of investigative journalism, pointing to new scientific explanations that give these luminous moments the importance felt by those who experience them. Pearson also delves into out-of-body and near-death experiences, examining stories and research to make sense of these related but distinct categories that shed light on Nearing Death Awareness. Countless people experience these coincidences when a loved one dies, while others experience such visions while they are dying themselves. These phenomena point toward a larger spiritual reality, and the reality of life (or something else) after death, yet are ignored in a cultural framework that dismisses anything that cannot be explained by the physical brain. But by dismissing or discounting these occurrences, we hamper our own healing. Challenging current assumptions about what we know and what we are still unable to explain, Opening Heaven's Door is a groundbreaking, beautifully written exploration that will forever alter your perceptions of the nature of life and death., The first book by a respected journalist on Nearing Death Awareness similar to Near-Death Experience this groundbreaking, beautifully written exploration will forever alter your perceptions of the nature of death and life.In a book that will spark intense debate, award-winning journalist Patricia Pearson reveals the widespread and underreported phenomenon of receiving consoling messages and visions from people who have recently died "before" the news of death has even been sent. Science may be unable to prove that there is life (or something else) after death, but countless people continue to experience these unexplained coincidences when a loved one dies, while others experience such visions while they are dying themselves. Prompted by her family s surprising, profound experiences around the deaths of her father and her sister, the hyper-rational Pearson sets out on an open-minded inquiry and discovers that roughly half of bereaved persons as well as nurses, hospice workers, soldiers, and others who constantly observe the dying have had uncanny, transcendent experiences. These intimations of enduring bonds can radically help people process their grief and their fear. "Opening Heaven s Door" recounts deeply affecting stories of messages from the dying and the dead in a fascinating work of investigative journalism, pointing to new scientific explanations that give these luminous moments the importance felt by those who experience them. The author of five books, Patricia Pearson has earned a well-deserved reputation for examining all sides of every story on which she reports. Challenging current assumptions about what we know and what we are still unable to explain, this riveting work will be welcomed by the thousands of readers of "Proof of Heaven "and" Heaven Is for Real. ", The first book by a respected journalist on Nearing Death Awareness--similar to Near-Death Experience--this groundbreaking, beautifully written exploration will forever alter your perceptions of the nature of death and life. In a book that will spark intense debate, award-winning journalist Patricia Pearson reveals the widespread and underreported phenomenon of receiving consoling messages and visions from people who have recently died--"before" the news of death has even been sent. Science may be unable to "prove" that there is life (or something else) after death, but countless people continue to experience these unexplained coincidences when a loved one dies, while others experience such visions while they are dying themselves. Prompted by her family's surprising, profound experiences around the deaths of her father and her sister, the hyper-rational Pearson sets out on an open-minded inquiry and discovers that roughly half of bereaved persons--as well as nurses, hospice workers, soldiers, and others who constantly observe the dying--have had uncanny, transcendent experiences. These intimations of enduring bonds can radically help people process their grief and their fear. "Opening Heaven's Door" recounts deeply affecting stories of messages from the dying and the dead in a fascinating work of investigative journalism, pointing to new scientific explanations that give these luminous moments the importance felt by those who experience them. The author of five books, Patricia Pearson has earned a well-deserved reputation for examining all sides of every story on which she reports. Challenging current assumptions about what we know and what we are still unable to explain, this riveting work will be welcomed by the thousands of readers of "Proof of Heaven "and" Heaven Is for Real. ", The first book by a respected journalist on Nearing Death Awareness-similar to Near-Death Experience-this groundbreaking, beautifully written exploration will forever alter your perceptions of the nature of death and life. In a book that will spark intense debate, award-winning journalist Patricia Pearson reveals the widespread and underreported phenomenon of receiving consoling messages and visions from people who have recently died- before the news of death has even been sent. Science may be unable to "prove" that there is life (or something else) after death, but countless people continue to experience these unexplained coincidences when a loved one dies, while others experience such visions while they are dying themselves. Prompted by her family's surprising, profound experiences around the deaths of her father and her sister, the hyper-rational Pearson sets out on an open-minded inquiry and discovers that roughly half of bereaved persons-as well as nurses, hospice workers, soldiers, and others who constantly observe the dying-have had uncanny, transcendent experiences. These intimations of enduring bonds can radically help people process their grief and their fear. Opening Heaven's Door recounts deeply affecting stories of messages from the dying and the dead in a fascinating work of investigative journalism, pointing to new scientific explanations that give these luminous moments the importance felt by those who experience them. The author of five books, Patricia Pearson has earned a well-deserved reputation for examining all sides of every story on which she reports. Challenging current assumptions about what we know and what we are still unable to explain, this riveting work will be welcomed by the thousands of readers of Proof of Heaven and Heaven Is for Real.
9781476757063 English 1476757062 People everywhere carry with them extraordinary, deeply comforting experiences that arrived at the moment when they most needed relief: when they lost a loved one. These experiences can include clear messages from beyond, profound and vividly beautiful visions, mysterious connections and spiritual awareness, foreknowledge of a loved one's passing-all of which evade explanation by science and logic. Most people keep these transcendent experiences secret-deathbed experiences, Nearing Death Awareness, and shared death experiences. Individuals and families guard them for fear they will be discounted by hyperrational scrutiny. Yet these very common occurrences have the power to console, comfort, and even transform our understanding of life and death. Prompted by her family's surprising, profound experiences around the death of her father and her sister, reporter Patricia Pearson sets out on an open-minded inquiry, a rare journalistic investigation of Nearing Death Awareness. Pearson discovers that roughly half of bereaved people, as well as nurses, hospice workers, soldiers, and others who constantly observe the dying, have had intimations of enduring bonds that can radically help people to process their grief and their fear. Opening Heaven's Door offers deeply affecting stories of messages from the dying and the dead in a fascinating work of investigative journalism, pointing to new scientific explanations that give these luminous moments the importance felt by those who experience them. Pearson also delves into out-of-body and near-death experiences, examining stories and research to make sense of these related but distinct categories that shed light on Nearing Death Awareness. Countless people experience these coincidences when a loved one dies, while others experience such visions while they are dying themselves. These phenomena point toward a larger spiritual reality, and the reality of life (or something else) after death, yet are ignored in a cultural framework that dismisses anything that cannot be explained by the physical brain. But by dismissing or discounting these occurrences, we hamper our own healing. Challenging current assumptions about what we know and what we are still unable to explain, Opening Heaven's Door is a groundbreaking, beautifully written exploration that will forever alter your perceptions of the nature of life and death., The first book by a respected journalist on Nearing Death Awareness similar to Near-Death Experience this groundbreaking, beautifully written exploration will forever alter your perceptions of the nature of death and life.In a book that will spark intense debate, award-winning journalist Patricia Pearson reveals the widespread and underreported phenomenon of receiving consoling messages and visions from people who have recently died "before" the news of death has even been sent. Science may be unable to prove that there is life (or something else) after death, but countless people continue to experience these unexplained coincidences when a loved one dies, while others experience such visions while they are dying themselves. Prompted by her family s surprising, profound experiences around the deaths of her father and her sister, the hyper-rational Pearson sets out on an open-minded inquiry and discovers that roughly half of bereaved persons as well as nurses, hospice workers, soldiers, and others who constantly observe the dying have had uncanny, transcendent experiences. These intimations of enduring bonds can radically help people process their grief and their fear. "Opening Heaven s Door" recounts deeply affecting stories of messages from the dying and the dead in a fascinating work of investigative journalism, pointing to new scientific explanations that give these luminous moments the importance felt by those who experience them. The author of five books, Patricia Pearson has earned a well-deserved reputation for examining all sides of every story on which she reports. Challenging current assumptions about what we know and what we are still unable to explain, this riveting work will be welcomed by the thousands of readers of "Proof of Heaven "and" Heaven Is for Real. ", The first book by a respected journalist on Nearing Death Awareness--similar to Near-Death Experience--this groundbreaking, beautifully written exploration will forever alter your perceptions of the nature of death and life. In a book that will spark intense debate, award-winning journalist Patricia Pearson reveals the widespread and underreported phenomenon of receiving consoling messages and visions from people who have recently died--"before" the news of death has even been sent. Science may be unable to "prove" that there is life (or something else) after death, but countless people continue to experience these unexplained coincidences when a loved one dies, while others experience such visions while they are dying themselves. Prompted by her family's surprising, profound experiences around the deaths of her father and her sister, the hyper-rational Pearson sets out on an open-minded inquiry and discovers that roughly half of bereaved persons--as well as nurses, hospice workers, soldiers, and others who constantly observe the dying--have had uncanny, transcendent experiences. These intimations of enduring bonds can radically help people process their grief and their fear. "Opening Heaven's Door" recounts deeply affecting stories of messages from the dying and the dead in a fascinating work of investigative journalism, pointing to new scientific explanations that give these luminous moments the importance felt by those who experience them. The author of five books, Patricia Pearson has earned a well-deserved reputation for examining all sides of every story on which she reports. Challenging current assumptions about what we know and what we are still unable to explain, this riveting work will be welcomed by the thousands of readers of "Proof of Heaven "and" Heaven Is for Real. ", The first book by a respected journalist on Nearing Death Awareness-similar to Near-Death Experience-this groundbreaking, beautifully written exploration will forever alter your perceptions of the nature of death and life. In a book that will spark intense debate, award-winning journalist Patricia Pearson reveals the widespread and underreported phenomenon of receiving consoling messages and visions from people who have recently died- before the news of death has even been sent. Science may be unable to "prove" that there is life (or something else) after death, but countless people continue to experience these unexplained coincidences when a loved one dies, while others experience such visions while they are dying themselves. Prompted by her family's surprising, profound experiences around the deaths of her father and her sister, the hyper-rational Pearson sets out on an open-minded inquiry and discovers that roughly half of bereaved persons-as well as nurses, hospice workers, soldiers, and others who constantly observe the dying-have had uncanny, transcendent experiences. These intimations of enduring bonds can radically help people process their grief and their fear. Opening Heaven's Door recounts deeply affecting stories of messages from the dying and the dead in a fascinating work of investigative journalism, pointing to new scientific explanations that give these luminous moments the importance felt by those who experience them. The author of five books, Patricia Pearson has earned a well-deserved reputation for examining all sides of every story on which she reports. Challenging current assumptions about what we know and what we are still unable to explain, this riveting work will be welcomed by the thousands of readers of Proof of Heaven and Heaven Is for Real.