Here's a new book from a Hospice nurse who is convinced life goes on after death. One thing that is interesting about it is that it is featured in a story in my local paper.

Miraculous Moments: True Stories Affirming Life Goes On

by Elissa Al-Chokhachy

She says "I know there is life after death because there are so many affirmations."

http://www.patriotledger.com/lifestyles/WoMYnZone/x721123030/Hospice-nurse-comfo...

There's a short audio clip here too.

I just think it is interesting that this made the local paper so prominently. And she is scheduled to speak at a conference at a major medical center in October. That she made it to the conference as a speaker is amazing.

Bravo to that nurse, and to you, Lucy,
for spreading that afterlife information!

A collection of children's reincarnation memories by _  Stevenson (I think) has already done alot to open people to that topic, so I think we can agree that anecdotal evidence is evidence and it has an impact. Not that we should stop looking for the irrefutable afterlife situation. Actually many of us have already found one or more, but you never know what situation others will respond to.

Professional credentials must surely help and that nurse certainly has fine ones.

Bets

recoverer
good point. Not sure we can use that as a reason for hospice! but ti probably works that way. At least I hope so. Isn't that why Tibetan Book ofthe Dead was written? Imean, to be a how-to manual to some extent? Probably to avoid ages in purgatory. I'm not sure about that, but I thought that was part of what that is about.

bets
hi, yeah I kinda had an attitutde when I went in of "what do we need thisbok for?" . Just a little attitude, though I am fascinatedby the stories. So Isort fo broached the subject both with her and with two other people who hung aound after. Iasked one of the two out right why was this so hard to talk about, and she told me a little story about someone who had gone to Confession with a little story having to do with a medical procedure she found medically necessary, and havinghad 7 kids she didn't think it mattered, but the priest shamed her. The point was, people get shamed for the darndest things, so if they think they have had an encounter with someone who died, they aren't about to talk about it. So they still keep these stories to themselves. The author does a great service by giving them permission to talk about this. I tend to forget that when I am here. I don't think we are "spoiled", but relative to some folks I guess we are.

She is a wonderfully warm and kind person. She drew out the audience. As I said, I think many in that group were there because the newspaper highlighted her hospice work, and maybe they had experience using hospice. She gave them permission to talk about their experiences.

So I also asked her why a book was needed (I hope I was polite in my approach!) She studied thanatology and she said it didn't matter, that there is still a great resistence within the medical community to talk about these things.

There was an article in the paper today about the official psychiatric definition of grief, in that in a proposed efinition, if it continues longer than two weeks it is a form of depression. I think that shows our inability to deal openly withissues of death. is grief really a major depressive disorder? or is it a part of living? If we don't talk about death, if we pretend it doesn't exist, will it go away?

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/09/08/a_m...

and if we don't talk about death, how can we talk about life after death?

So I guess there is still a need for books like Miraculous Moments.

Thanks, Lucy.  I just sent the web connection out to my email addresses.  It sounds very interesting.  I will order the book very soon.

Love Carol Ann

My concept of fully experiencing things has been jostled again.

I found this description of an NDE:

http://www.near-death.com/experiences/reincarnation03.html

Thi sperson writes very clearly about wha he means to experience things from all viewpoints. If fully experiencing things turns out to mean experiencing things from all viewpoints, I think I will have trouble doing that unless I am in one of those NDE experiences. Or have just died.

So does this imply that any higher beings we meet in our "travels" experience events from all points of view as a matter of course? Maybe the only type of experience you have once you get to the other side permanently is this multivision.

I didn't give the link to her website:

http://www.miraculousmoments.com/

The next conference she will attend is in Canada; this organization looksinteresting:

http://www.iiihs.org/iiihs.htm

and the iands site is also interesting:

http://www.iands.org/