Opening Heaven's door
Subtitle: what the dying are trying to say about where they're going
By: Patricia Pearson
Edition: First Atria paperback edition.
Publisher: Atria Paperback
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781476757070
Subjects: Death; Near-death experiences; Future life; SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Parapsychology / Near-Death Experience; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Description: Nearing Death Awareness is a phenomenon rarely discussed by those who have experienced it and often dismissed by our culture because it defies science or logic. Yet roughly half of bereaved people, as well as nurses and others who constantly observe the dying, have stories of coincidental visions at the exact moment of a loved one's death, comforting visits from a departed friend in an hour of need, and observations of the uncanny precision with which the dying predict their own deaths, even when they appear to the trained eye to be on the brink of recovery. These surprisingly common occurrences point toward a larger spiritual reality, and the reality of life (or something else) after death. They also have the power to console and comfort us and to transform our understanding of mortality. Prompted by her own family's experiences surrounding the deaths of her father and sister, journalist Patricia Pearson examines the scientific and anecdotal evidence to challenge current assumptions regarding what we know and what we are still unable to explain about what happens to us at the threshold of death.--Adapted from publisher description.
Notes: Originally published : 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: An unexpected vision; title: What the dying see : the phenomenon of nearing death awareness; title: Signals and waves : uncanny experiences at the moment of death; title: Astral father : the phenomenon of a sensed presence; title: Be still : how the dying attain peace; title: Deeper : what NDEs tell us about where the dying go; title: Walking the enchanted boundary : living in the aftermath.