I recently read Howard Storm‘s My Descent Into Death: What Happens When We Die (© 2005 Howard Storm, published Doubleday March 2005), having read a brief synopsis of his story in Lessons from the Light by Kenneth Ring and a longer synopsis in Roy Abraham Varghese’s
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Dr. Raymond Moody Interview with Paul Perry
In this interview, Dr. Raymond Moody and his co-author Paul Perry discuss seven key elements of the “shared death experience,” which are very similar to those of the near-death experience. Moody and Perry’s recent book, Glimpses of Eternity describes some of these Shared Death Experiences.
Hay Fever and TED Talks
I’m currently in rehearsal for Hay Fever by Noel Coward; the United Players of Vancouver is putting it on at Jericho Arts Centre, opening on September 2.
Anyhow, at a rehearsal the other day, a few of us in the cast were chatting about some of the TED talks we love. Have you ever spent a couple of hours browsing through TED’s wonderful “Ideas Worth Spreading”? There are so many that are totally brilliant.
How about this talk by J.K. Rowling – her commencement speech
The Three Ls
I often wonder how to end my emails. I’ve just come up with the perfect ending:
Here’s to the three Ls: love, light, and learning.
Why are they so perfect? Because they are three of the most important lessons from the near-death experience, currently one of my favourite non-fiction book topics.
Kenneth Ring Wrote About NDEs
For twenty years or so, following an earlier fascination, Kenneth Ring wrote about near-death experiences (NDEs), near-death experiencers (NDErs), what NDErs learned about how to live their lives as a result of having had an NDE, and how we non-NDErs can learn about how to live our lives from just reading about NDEs. And there’s a lot to learn!
That about captures Ring’s NDE output – published in Life at Death, Heading Toward Omega, The Omega Project, Mindsight, and