title: Opening Heaven's Door: Investigating Stories of Life, Death, and What Comes After
author:  Patricia Pearson 
description: The word is out: you dont die when you die. Thats the message from around 15 million Americans who have experienced a near-death experience, as Patricia Pearson, in sparkling prose, shows in this enormously engaging book. I know, I know: this premise causes serious intellectual indigestion in die-hard skeptics, but we should not be diverted by their leaky arguments. The fear of total annihilation with physical death has caused more suffering in human history than all the physical diseases combined. Pearsons message is a Great Cure for this Great Fear. This book conveys deep meaning and hope. It takes the pressure off and makes life more fulfilling and joyous. There is only one reason why you should <i>not</i> read this magnificent book: if you have a secret way not to die. But since the statistics so far are against you, let Pearson be your guide. (Larry Dossey, MD, author of One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters)<br /><br />Pearson brings her blend of humor, sympathy, and keen critical intelligence to a topic that is all too often off limits to writers of her caliber. This is exactly the smart book on the possibility of an afterlife that readers curious about the topic but leery of mush have been looking for. (Ptolemy Tompkins, author of The Modern Book of the Dead and collaborator with Dr. Eben Alexander on Proof of Heaven an)<br /><br />Pearson has brought us something rare: a unique blend of gifted storytelling combined with exhaustive scientific research about dying, grief, and spiritual connectivity. <i>Opening Heavens Door </i>leaves us enthralled that deaths mystery may be lifes solution. (Allan J. Hamilton, MD, author of The Scalpel and the Soul)<br /><br />In this compelling and provoking read, Patricia Pearson examines death and dying with uncommon thoughtfulness, asking questions too rarely asked. Moving and insightful, <i>Opening Heaven's Door</i> is an important work for all of us struggling with the inevitably of death. (Steven Galloway, author of The Confabulist and The Cellist of Sarajevo)<br /><br />Your life is over the moment you die. So I used to believe,<b> </b>with something like religious fervor. And then I read <i>Opening Heavens Door</i>, and such is the power and art, the passion and rigor of Patricia Pearsons writing that Im not nearly so sure of myself. This is a splendid book in all the ways a book can be splendid. It is a book to be read and re-read and urged upon friends. (Barbara Gowdy, author of We So Seldom Loo)<br /><br />Patricia Pearsons <i>Opening Heavens Door</i> is a fascinating examination of the conclusion of all our struggles and victories: the instant of death. This omnivorous journey through grief and neuroscience and spirituality carries the reader swiftly along and into places we can never truly knowbut Pearson provides an unprecedented glimpse. (Kevin Patterson, award-winning author of)<br /><br />On the night of my fathers death, said the authors sister at their fathers memorial service, I had an extraordinary spiritual experience. How can you put down a book that begins like that? Hardheaded and openhearted, Pearson has brought together riveting accounts of near-death experiences that will shake your assumptions about where life ends, and what death means. For seekers and skeptics alike, <i>Opening Heavens Door</i> is profoundly comforting, questing, and wise. (Marni Jackson, author of Pain: The Fifth)<br /><br />This remarkable new book by Patricia Pearson is a rare thing: bringing journalistic rigor to an impossible question The book succeeds so well because it favors questions over answers, humility over certainty, and (when called for) crunchy ice-breaking humor over earnestness. But mostly it succeeds because of its unabashed concern with love, as its experienced not just by those at heavens door, but by the human tribe thats inevitably left behind when someone dies. Love, too, is a mystery that changes us. (<i>The Globe &amp; Mail</i>)<br /><br />A wide-ranging account of discoveries and evolving understanding about life, death, the afterlife, and the true dimensions of consciousness. Numerous firsthand accounts, observations and results of scientific research provide a readable primer on psi phenomena, significantly expanding our understanding of the realities of our existence. (<i>Light of Consciousness magazine</i>)<br /><br />Readers will be humbled and filled with a sense of hope rather than fear as they realize that the deaths of loved ones, or even their own deaths, are not losses, but simply transitions. <b>A fascinating and candid analysis of the process of dying</b>. (<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>)
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  Avelyn Paige
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