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Title: Blessing in Disguise: Another Side of the Near-Death Experience by Barbara R., MD Rommer, Raymond A., Jr. Moody, Bart Ostroff ISBN: 1-56718-585-1 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best in the Field
Comment: There are hundreds of books on the subject of Near Death Experience (or NDE). Most of them are filled with positive experiences such as meeting loved ones, angels, and beautiful landscapes. I bought this book because it covered the darker aspects of NDE, which Rommer calls LTP (or Less Than Positive) experiences. One statement made in the book stands out very clearly. If you expect hellfire and brimstone, that's what you're going to get.There were a wide variety of individual accounts, some of them typical of the NDE. But she also covers those who have misinterpreted their experiences as bad. Such as those who had relived all the horrible aspects of their lives before being resucitated. Those she labeled Type II LTPs. The type IIIs, I found disturbing. Many of these people suffered from depression and/or drug abuse of varying degrees, or they were brought up to believe that their soul would go to Hell for all the sins they committed during their lifetime. Some of these people had attempted suicide, either overtly or covertly. Every account was distinctly different from the next, but every one of these people were given the same message. They could face up to their misgivings or misperceptions and change their own destinies. Many of them have.Blessing in Disguise is the most informative book I've read on Near Death Experiences. It isn't clinical or watered-down, like some of the books by Moody and Ring. Another good book is "Beyond the Darkness, My Near-Death Journey to the Edge of Hell and Back," by Angie Fenimore.
Rating: 5
Summary: Among the Best NDE books
Comment: There have been a number of good books on the near-death experience over the past 25 years, but this one must certainly rank among the very best. It is different from most in that the focus is on what Dr. Rommer calls "less-than-positive" (LTP) NDEs. Most of the NDE books detail the blissful or "heavenly" type experience. Accounts of the LTP experience have not been as readily available, apparently because people who have had them have been reluctant to tell others about their "hellish" experiences. However, Dr. Rommer has managed to interview a number of such LTP experiencers. She finds that such experiences, while often frightening, are usually transforming and therefore "blessings in disguise." A large percentage of LTP experiencers "awaken" to their past transgressions and to the need to straighten out their lives by embarking on a spiritual path.
There are numerous interesting accounts by experiencers. While the focus is on the LTP, there are enough positive experiences to offer the reader some bliss to go along with the unpleasant and more than balance the negative. There are some very interesting philosophies related by some experiencers. Dr. Rommer approaches the subject with scientific objectivity, but fortunately, for the reader, she lacks the willful blindness and intellectual arrogance of the avowed skeptic.
Rating: 1
Summary: Cowards Die Many Times
Comment: Shakespeare wrote in Julius Caesar "Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once."
That said suffice it to say I have literally died at least twice in the hospital, and not in any time did I experience what the folks in this book went through. Fact is, each time it was just like going to sleep and waking up again. As a devout Catholic I keep trying to ready my soul for death and in want of inspiration and encouragement like to read books like this. However I found this book most discouraging, disheartening, and anything but reassuring. I am content to be a Catholic and am very disappointed that Barbara Rommer did not write anything about the afterlife that would verify or contradict the teachings of Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, Islam or any of the other religions. In want of inspiration I'll stick with the saints!
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Title: Light and Death by Michael B. Sabom, Michael, MD Sabom ISBN: 0310219922 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Life After Life : The Investigation of a Phenomenon--Survival of Bodily Death by Raymond Moody ISBN: 0062517392 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 06 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Light Beyond by Raymond Moody ISBN: 0553278134 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Embraced by the Light by Betty J. Eadie, Curtis Taylor ISBN: 0553565915 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Return from Tomorrow by George G. Ritchie, Elizabeth Sherrill ISBN: 080078412X Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co Pub. Date: July, 1988 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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