title: Lessons From The Light
author:  Kenneth Ring 
description: Even if you never have a near-death experience (NDE) on the surgeon's table, in a car accident or during a heart attack, you can reap the spiritual benefits claimed by NDErs. Through meditation, study and mental exercises, you can tap into the healing energy of the loving, nonjudgmental Being of Light glimpsed by many at death's door. You can simulate a panoramic life-review of your entire existence, catapulting your values away from competitive materialism and toward love, service, cooperation; and you can integrate the insights commonly reported by NDErs into daily practical living. That's the message of this manual that, notwithstanding its aim of reaching out beyond the lucky privileged NDErs to the masses, mostly preaches to the converted. Veteran NDE researcher Ring (The Omega Project), here writing with Swiss NDE investigator Valarino, includes many previously unpublished NDE cases and distills techniques he has taught at workshops and university courses. In a book that reads like a New Age seminar, Ring presents intriguing evidence to support his belief that NDEs represent an authentic, objective experience, not a self-protective hallucination or a neurological artifact of a dying brain. This material includes reports of out-of-body experiences, children's NDEs, blind people gaining sight during NDE episodes, and NDErs whose brush with death apparently unleashed paranormal or healing abilities. Skeptics will relish punching holes in each of these phenomena, and a more rigorous approach would have been welcome for the already overcrowded NDE shelf. <br />Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # THE RING OF THOTH
  
  
  ### Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  
  
  
  
  
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  MR. JOHN VANSITTART SMITH, F.R.S., of 147A Gower Street, was a man whose
  energy of purpose and clearness of thought might have placed him in the very
  first rank of scientific observers. He was the victim, however, of a universal
  ambition which prompted him to aim at distinction in many subjects rather than
  pre-eminence in one. In his early days he had shown aptitude for zoology and
  for botany which caused his friends to look upon him as a second Darwin, but
  when a professorship was almost within his reach he had suddenly discontinued
  his studies and turned his whole attention to chemistry. Here his researches
  upon the spectra of the metals had won him his fellowship in the Royal
  Society; but again he played the c