Sharing experiences...
...broadening knowledge.
How do I find out more about NDEs?
Obviously attending one of our meetings puts you in direct contact with other people who have had an NDE. We encourage sharing knowledge and experiences and there is more material out there than you would imagine on the subject of NDEs. Some information is particularly medical based and good for answering the practical questions and hypothesis of why and how NDEs happen. Other books focus on the mental and spiritual aspect of NDEs and the impact it has on experiencers and their lives. Some books simply collate and present different unique experiences. Whether your interest is medical or scientific, or from personal experience, good or bad, we would like to raise the profile of NDEs.
Obviously attending one of our meetings puts you in direct contact with other people who have had an NDE. We encourage sharing knowledge and experiences and there is more material out there than you would imagine on the subject of NDEs. Some information is particularly medical based and good for answering the practical questions and hypothesis of why and how NDEs happen. Other books focus on the mental and spiritual aspect of NDEs and the impact it has on experiencers and their lives. Some books simply collate and present different unique experiences. Whether your interest is medical or scientific, or from personal experience, good or bad, we would like to raise the profile of NDEs.
What further information is there?
You can read NDE UK Founder Gigi Strehler's account of her experience in "The Transformative Power Of Near Death Experiences" by Dr. Penny Sartori and Kelly Walsh:
Dr. Sartori is our Associate Researcher, Lecturer & Author and has also written the following books:
Mary Tiffin is one of our members and published her mother's account of her astonishing NDE available at www.tiffaniabooks.com:
Following her NDE, Founder Gigi Strehler read extensively on the subject to help come to terms with her experience and recommends the following for further reading:
There are also several books on Death Midwifery - helping, supporting and assisting loved ones to achieve a peaceful death transition:
- The Transformative Power Of Near Death Experiences - Dr Penny Sartori & Kelly Walsh (Near-death experiences (NDEs) are often transformative, not only on an individual level, but on a collective level too. This book contains a selection of inspiring stories from ordinary people who have had extraordinary experiences that have changed the course and direction of their lives and opened each and every one of them to the power of divine love. Recent years have seen a dramatic change of attitude towards NDEs. Unfortunately, the ongoing debates about NDEs have detracted greatly from the very important transformational effects that NDEs have and how empowering they can be for the whole of mankind. The NDE instils knowledge in those who experience it that we are all interconnected and part of one great whole. This book aims to inspire people from all walks of life, creeds, cultures and faiths to the transformational power of the message of NDEs and show how the love experienced during the NDE has the capacity to heal minds, bodies and souls.)
Dr. Sartori is our Associate Researcher, Lecturer & Author and has also written the following books:
- The Wisdom Of Near Death Experiences - Dr Penny Sartori (This book investigates the wide range of near-death experiences (NDEs) of patients that Penny Sartori has encountered during her nursing career, as well as the hundreds of cases of people who have reached out to her over the years. Many people take NDEs at surface value and are misinformed about the full extent of this highly complex phenomenon. Dr Sartori argues that, by pathologising the NDE, we are missing out on vital insights that can empower us to live fulfilled and meaningful lives. Dr Sartori does not offer superficial physiological or psychological explanations for why these experiences take place. Rather, the crucial point of this book is that NDEs undoubtedly occur and have very real, often dramatic, and life changing aftereffects. Further to that, the wisdom gained during the NDE can be life enhancing and have hugely positive effects on those who don't have an NDE - all we have to do is take notice of and hear what these people have to say. A greater understanding of NDEs can not only enhance the way in which we care for dying patients, but also revolutionise our current worldview. This book encourages readers to take notice of and incorporate the wisdom and powerful messages of NDEs into their own lives.)
- What Is A Near Death Experience? - Dr Penny Sartori (Contemplating death and the frequently-experienced phenomenon of near-death experiences (NDEs) which are so little recognised and supported within the traditional medical environment can really help alter our relationship with death and release us from the fear that often surrounds it. 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? 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? 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.)
- The Near Death Experiences Of Hospitalized Intensive Care Patients: A Five-Year Clinical Study - Dr Penny Sartori (Near Death Experiences are usually reduced to mere anecdotal evidence, but this book attempts to produce an objective account of these experiences within the UK hospital system. Sartori, an Intensive Therapy Unit nurse, avoids metaphysical explanations and sticks to the facts of each cae, drawing parallels and consistencies in each experience.)
Mary Tiffin is one of our members and published her mother's account of her astonishing NDE available at www.tiffaniabooks.com:
- Testimony To Love - Gwen Steele-Perkins & Mary Tiffin (Gwen writes of love as the driving force of her life. But overall, it is her faith in the God she believed spoke to her in a vision of light and love which carries her story through. Her vision of the Light was the rock on which she stood through all her travails and is the enduring theme of the story she writes.)
Following her NDE, Founder Gigi Strehler read extensively on the subject to help come to terms with her experience and recommends the following for further reading:
- The Big Book Of Near Death Experiences - PMH Atwater (One of the most comprehensive guides to all aspects of NDEs.)
- The Self Does Not Die - Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences - Titus Rivas, Anny Dirven and Rudolf H Smit (This book contains over 100 reliable, often firsthand accounts of perceptions during NDEs that were later verified as accurate by independent sources. These near-death experiencers were everyday people from all over the world—many of whom were clinically dead, unable to see or hear, and yet able to perceive new vistas of a world beyond the senses and even beyond death. One of the most comprehensive guides to all aspects of NDEs.)
- The Day I Died: Remarkable True Stories Of Near Death Experience - Tammy Cohen (What happens to us when we die? Where do people go? What do they see? What messages do they receive? Why are they allowed to come back? "The Day I Died" brings together ten profoundly moving testimonies from people who have passed through the limits of human endurance and beyond.)
- Proof Of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into The Afterlife - Eben Alexander (Internationally acclaimed neurosurgeon Dr Eben Alexander always considered himself a man of science. His unwavering belief in evidence-based medicine fuelled a career in the top medical institutions of the world. But all this was set to change.)
- Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science Of The Near Death Experience - Pim Van Lommel (Internationally renowned cardiologist Dr. Pim van Lommel offers ground-breaking research into whether or not our consciousness survives the death of our body.)
- Secrets Of The Light - Dannion Brinkley (In 1975, Dannion Brinkley was struck and killed by lightning. When he awoke in a morgue twenty-eight minutes later, everything was forever changed. During the next twenty years, Brinkley had not one, but two more near-death experiences. Each time, he visited the other side and received valuable lessons and spiritual knowledge, which he incorporated into his daily life.)
- Life After Life - Raymond A Moody (In this fascinating book, Dr Moody reveals his groundbreaking study of more than 100 people who experienced 'clinical death' - and were revived. Their amazing testimonies and surprising descriptions of 'death' and 'beyond' are so strikingly similar, so vivid and so overwhelmingly positive they have changed the way we view life and death, and the spiritual hereafter.)
- The Afterlife Is Real - Theresa Cheung (Using as evidence first-hand accounts from ordinary people whose lives have been transformed by near death experiences and/or contact with the other side, Theresa will answer the big questions that everyone asks at some point in their lives whether or not they are religious/spiritual. What happens when we die? Will we ever see our loved ones again? Is there an afterlife?)
- Dancing Past The Dark: Distressing Near Death Experiences - Nancy Evans Bush (The first comprehensive exploration of disturbing NDEs and how people interpret them, is packed with solid information and first-person narratives that, although marked by dismaying and even terrifying features, turn out to have something vital to say about life itself.)
- Life Between Life - Joel L Whitton & Joe Fisher (This ground-breaking study confirms that life choices are individually made within a between-life state, where explanations for life's burdens and ideas for relief are also offered.)
- Goodbye Again: Experiences With Departed Loved Ones - Edie Devers
- Coming Back To Life: The After Effects Of The Near Death Experience - P M H Atwater (After three near death experiences, Phyllis Atwater, confused by the aftereffects, began extensive research talking to over 200 fellow survivors and their loved ones. Here she provides a new and fresh perspective on the subject.)
- The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case For The Existence Of The Soul - Mario Beauregard & Denyse O'Leary (Do religious experiences come from God, or are they merely the random firing of neurons in the brain? Drawing on his own research with Carmelite nuns, neuroscientist Mario Beauregard shows that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented.)
- Heading Toward Omega - Dr Kenneth Ring (Dr. Ring showed that near-death experiences tend to lead to a total transformation of a person’s attitudes, beliefs and values and are often catalysts for spiritual awakening. Indeed it is possible that such experiences, now known to have occurred to many millions of people around the world, may collectively herald the birth of a higher consciousness for all humanity.)
- The Truth In The Light - Peter & Elizabeth Fenwick (Most of us at the very least wonder about our own immortality and many people are convinced that there is something beyond death, beyond the blackness of the grave. Many people believe that in the NDE we are given glimpses of Heaven (or Hell). But it is just as reasonable to assume that it is the NDE itself which may have shaped our very ideas about Heaven and Hell.)
- My Descent Into Death - Howard Storm (For years Howard Storm lived the American dream. Then, without warning, he found himself in hospital in excruciating pain, awaiting an emergency operation. He realised with horror that his death was a real possibility, but as an atheist he was convinced that his demise would mark the end of consciousness. Storm was totally unprepared for what was to happen next. He found himself out of his body, staring at his own physical form. In his spirit form, Storm was drawn into fearsome realms of darkness and death, where he experienced the terrible consequences of a life of selfishness and materialism.)
- Transformed By The Light: Life After Near Death Experiences - Cherie Sutherland (Study of 50 people who have had a near-death experience, describing their reactions to it, the resultant changes in their attitudes to death, religion and life direction, and psychic phenomena.)
- Beyond The Light: What Isn't Being Said About Near Death Experiences - P M H Atwater (Do near death experiencers always approach heaven? They approach hell, too, says NDE Expert P.M.H. Atwater in the controversial new book in the field of near death studies. Having interviewed over 4000 NDE adults and children, and as being an NDE survivor herself, she has come to stunning conclusions about the afterlife: it's not all good.)
- To Hell And Back - Maurice Rawlings (This investigative study into near-death and out-of-body experiences and dream states concentrates on the negative occurences usually left unreported. If negative cases can be demonstrated, then a place like hell may be possible, therefore, it may not be safe to die.)
- Life At Death - Dr Kenneth Ring (Dr. Kenneth Ring discovered that most near-death experiences seem to unfold according to a single pattern. What to make of this common set of elements associated with the onset of death is the central challenge of this book. He also showed that the aftereffects on the experience are consistent, dramatic and profound. The fear of death tends to vanish, and the total impact is akin to a spiritual rebirth.)
- Closer To The Light: Learning From The Near Death Experiences Of Children - Melvin Morse (In hundreds of interviews with children who had once been declared clinically dead, Dr. Morse found that children too young to have absorbed our adult views and ideas of death, share first-hand accounts of out-of-body travel, telepathic communication and encounters with dead friends and relatives.)
- Dying To Live - Susan J Blackmore (Progress in medical science has increased our understanding of what happens when the brain begins to fail. Psychology delves ever more deeply into the nature of the self. Blackmore explores what psychology, biology, and medicine have to say about this extraordinary aspect of death and dying.)
- Embraced By The Light: What Happens When You Die? - Betty J Eadie (An account of the author's near-death experience in which she recounts the people she met, the truths she learned and the realities of the spirit world. This is one of the most convincing arguments for the existence of life after death and has filled countless people with hope.)
- Children Of The Light - Cherie Sutherland (A book on the near-death experiences of children.)
- Reunions: Visionary Encounters With Departed Loved Ones - Raymond A Moody (Dr Moody investigates the near-death experience and sets out to establish its scientific legitimacy. In this book he presents his latest research into living people's contacts with apparitions of the dead.)
- Lessons From The Light: What We Can Learn From The Near Death Experience - Dr Kenneth Ring (This is unlike other books on the NDE in that it is written not so much about these life-changing encounters as such but for persons who have never had an NDE themselves yet wish to learn from those who have.)
- Blessing In Disguise - Barbara Rommer (Research suggests that 17.7% of near-death experiences are distressing or frightening. Explore the meaning of hellish visions. Witness their after-effects on peoples lives: the development of psychic or healing powers ... changes in behaviors, habits, and careers ... even the disappearance of the disease that "killed" the person in the first place.)
- Dying To Be Me - Anita Moorjani (In this truly inspirational memoir, Moorjani relates how, after fighting cancer for almost four years, her system-began shutting down. As her organs failed, she entered into an extraordinary near-death experience where she realized her inherent worth... and the actual cause of her disease. Upon regaining consciousness, Anita found that her condition had improved so rapidly that she was able to be released from the hospital within weeks... without a trace of cancer in her body!)
- Transformed By The Light - Melvin Morse (A Seattle pediatrician reports on the near-death experiences of children he has treated and how these experiences have had a positive effect throughout their lives.)
- Beyond Death's Door - Maurice Rawlings (All through recorded history people have predicted life after death. But only now, with modern resuscitation methods, are we beginning to see Beyond Death's Door. A significant book by a leading heart specialist the recounts the experiences of individuals who have survived clinical death and returned to tell us about it.)
- Saved By The Light - Dannion Brinkley (The most amazing and complete near-death experience of the twenty thousand I have encountered (Dr Raymond Moody, author of LIFE AFTER LIFE) Saved by the Light is the most detailed - and extraordinary - account of a near-death experience that I have ever read offering a compelling vision of what it's like to die and, most important, how to live.)
- Love Is The Link: A Hospice Doctor Shares Her Experience Of Near Death And Dying - Pamela M Kircher (A hospice physician who had a near-death experience as a child shares the stories and lessons she has learned over the past 25 years of supporting people with NDEs, increasing knowledge of NDEs among healthcare professionals, and being with people in their final days of life. Readers will be inspired by the transformative experiences that push aside the veil of the mystery of death and provide solace to people who are dying and their loved ones.)
There are also several books on Death Midwifery - helping, supporting and assisting loved ones to achieve a peaceful death transition:
- The Art Of Death Midwifery - Joellyn St Pierre (A compelling and comprehensive manual for family, clergy, hospice volunteers, or medical staff engaged in the field of death and dying. In this poetic and powerful book, the author reminds us that society has thrown a veil of mystery over the process of death, thereby depriving the dying from the dignified and fearless departure they so deserve.)
- A Safe Journey Home - Felicity Warner (This essential guide will tell you all you need to know to help a loved one or friend to die gently and with dignity once medicine has reached its limits. You can honour their experience and nurture it, by giving them all your attention, kindness and love.)
- The Art Of Dying - Peter & Elizabeth Fenwick (A new book to help the dying, their loved ones and their health care workers better understand the dying process and to come to terms with death itself. Peter Fenwick is an eminent neuropsychiatrist, academic and expert on disorders of the brain. His most compelling and provocative research has been into the end of life phenomena, including near-death experiences and deathbed visions of the dying person, as well as the experiences of hospice and palliative care workers and relatives of dying people.)
- Midwife For Souls - Kathy Kalina (A very compassionate and caring account of how the Author has learned to develop hospice work and the care of the terminally ill beyond the obvious physical comforts.)
- Nearing Death Awareness - Mary Anne Sanders (Dying is a complex experience for the dying person and their family, friends, and carers, that involves all aspects of what it means to be human: physical, mental, and spiritual. The author describes different types of Nearing Death Awareness (NDA), including visions, dreams, and symbolic language, and offers practical guidance for family and carers of the dying about how to respond appropriately and supportively.)
- The Top Five Regrets Of The Dying - Bronnie Ware (After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. She found herself working in palliative care. Over the years she spent tending to the needs of those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed.)