title: The Near-Death Experience: A Reader
author: Lee W. Bailey
description: The 24 essays and book excerpts in this volume provide a comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of near-death experience (NDE), including cases and interpretations. Documentation of NDE goes back to the time of Plato and continues to stir public interest on talk shows as people connect by sharing their stories of "coming back from the edge of death." What has happened? Why is it not always a pleasant experience for all people? Why are there the same basic bird's-eye scenarios? Answers come from writers such as Raymond Moody and Betty Eadie, who focus on the spiritual nature of NDE. Carl Jung's psychology of the inner self, based on his NDE, is among the essays' highlights. Additional writings, such as the essay by Karl Jansen, focus on the role of chemicals the brain produces in times of crisis. Because the topic is popular, many libraries will already have the complete books by the authors included in this collection, recommending this for only the most comprehensive collections.?L. Kriz, West Des Moines Lib., Ia.<br />Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any
  similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended
  by the author.
  
  Text copyright © 2012 Gerry O’Hara  
  All rights reserved.  
  No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or
  transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,
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  Published by Montlake Romance  
  P.O. Box 400818  
  Las Vegas, NV 89140
  
  ISBN-13: 9781612186887  
  ISBN-10: 1612186882
  
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   _Dedicated with affection to my grandchildren: John and Rachael, Christie
  Anne and Scott, Paige and Cooper, Sean and Casey, Danielle and Jacob, J.J.,
  Parker, and Levi. You light up my life!_
  
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   **CONTENTS**
  
  CHAPTER ONE
  
  CHAPTER TWO
  
  CHAPTER THREE
  
  CHAPTER FOUR
  
  CHAPTER FIVE
  
  CHAPTER SIX
  
  CHAPTER SEVEN
  
  CHAPTE