Beyond the Light: What Isn't Being Said About Near-Death Experience

Beyond the Light: What Isn't Being Said About Near-Death Experience

By: P. M. H. Atwater  

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Average Customer Rating: 3.0 out of 5

Publisher: Carol Publishing Corporation

Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Beyond the Light: What Isn't Being Said About Near-Death Experince: from Visions of Heaven to Glimpses of Hell - I highly recommend this book as the standard in Near-Death Studies. Not only is it well documented but written in a style that is easy to comprehend with a fresh new look at four types of Near-death experiences. Near-Death Experiencers (NDErs), Spiritually Transformative Experiencers (STErs), researchers, and anyone interested in helping experiencers understand and integrate the physiological, psychological and spiritual aftereffects of such experiences, this book is invaluable. Dr. Atwater has received awards and accolades for her work in Near-Death Studies and lectured around the world. Reading this book is like having a conversation with a knowledgeable friend who is helping us understand a "homework" assignment on the Near-Death Experience. Enjoy!

Customer Review: 1 out of 5
Written to push her own agenda - After reading many other books on Near Death Experiences, I came to the conclusion that this book was very biassed in its presentation. 75% of other books on near death experiences tell about people who had met Jesus at the end of a tunnel. He was as an immense light of love. He introduced himself and talked to them before they had to return to their bodies. There were also experiences of people taken to hell and came back to life to tell about it. This book had an agenda to promote, the occult. It doesn't tell the whole story on near death experiences, only the views of her occult movement. Not worth wasting your time reading.

Customer Review: 5 out of 5
A pleasure to read - I enjoyed this work tremendously and found it inspiring and honest. I can see how many would rather have a feel good - everything was wonderful approach to the NDE, but I would prefer the good and the bad. Everyone gets the experience they need or have earned - which is the bottom line message of this book. I can see how the author generated controversy with her experiences, but I found her writing tremendously interesting and useful.

Customer Review: 2 out of 5
Confusing book - I divide Atwater's book into two parts. The first half is an interesting overview of the near-death experience (NDE). The second half deals with New Age-like, occult-like issues that depart from NDE. The second section is so New Age-y and off-the-point (and so counter to my beliefs religious and otherwise), that I could only stand to thumb through it. This half of the book contains the silly remarks that draw many complaints in reviews. The purpose of the book really seems to promote interest in all sorts of occult practices (especially in light of her anti-Christian attitude, described below, and her occupation as a psychic advisor and as a writer in occult topics). My questioning of her motive for this "bait-and-switch" book is supported by her wanderings into non-NDE topics (such as the alien abduction) and her claims to have had every type of paranormal experience (including both types of "walk in" phenomena: now that she has a different soul, doens't that make her a different person?).

Secondly, I object to Atwater's contemporary politically correct way of joyfully respecting all belief systems and cultures except for Christianity. Christians come in all varieties and cannot be stereotyped. In every reference to Christians the tension begins and Ms. Atwater never misses an opportunity to stab them in the back and twist the knife. She can't be respectful to Christianity at all for one second. Not once. I think that this blind anger invalidates her overall judgment and might turn readers away from more NDE research. How can I trust someone whose writing is always biased and whose conclusions are partial? Real research must be objective, but Atwater redefines the word.

Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Quite Good - One of the most astonishing things about the book was the jealousy the author speaks of. If NDEs are short voyages to death and the experience generally develops one's personality and conscience, it is interesting to see experiencers who are still selfish and go after fame and success in a very negative manner.

I loved the book, because I believe the author is open and sincere with her subject. I am reading the Complete Idiot's Guide... right now and it is as good as this one.

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