From dream research and global belief systems to extraordinary occurrences such as near-death and out-of-body experiences, this fascinating study delves into every aspect of death. Taking a scientific and anthropological approach, this examination focuses on how other cultures deal with death, how diverse kinds of death are treated, and how belief systems set the tone for grieving. In addition to the use of science and anthropology, this work includes the author’s own personal experiences as well as other stories that illustrate the striking realities of passing. Beginning with the many losses that occurred during the author’s childhood, Passings moves into an up-close-and-personal look at the tragic three-and-a-half-year period during which she lost her daughter, father, husband, grandmother, and mother. By combining personalized accounts with the scientific and the uncanny, this intriguing overview offers up a comprehensive investigation into the end of life, exploring individual beliefs and encouraging a better understanding of how the human species copes with death and dying.
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In the space of just three years, chef Travis-Henikoff (Dinner With a Cannibal) lost five family members: her husband to leukemia; her 80-year-old father to kidney failure; her grieving mother to suicide; her daughter, Kim, to blood clots; and her daughter-in-law to blood disease. Travis-Henikoff's struggle to accept these painful deaths was helped by a number of paranormal experiences, including Kim's premonitory dream (dying in a pool of ice water) and, three nights after her death, the appearance of Kim's spirit in "a thin crackling rod of shimmering white light." After Kim's death, Travis-Henikoff sought out others with stories of loss and the paranormal, finding people who "know, trust and love the sciences, yet fly gracefully through the cosmos of the metaphysical." Travis-Henikoff mines the family lore surrounding her great-grandmother, who held séances, and her own history (including a near-fatal childhood asthma attack), for evidence that she (and her daughter) may have inherited psychic powers; she also considers what she witnessed in the moment of her father and her husband's deaths. Whatever readers believe regarding death and the supernatural, Travis-Henikoff's tender, wise memoir of love, grief and truth-seeking will help them accept death as an affirmation of life's value. END
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"Whatever readers believe regarding death and the supernatural, Travis-Henikoff's tender, wise memoir of love, grief and truth-seeking will help them accept death as an affirmation of life's value." —Publishers Weekly
"I think your book is very important. The wealth of your extraordinary experiences will help many." —Roger Lewin, author, Bones of Contention, Origins Reconsidered, and Principles of Human Evolution
"Passings has helped me greatly to understand the incredible and all too often underestimated power of the mind in controlling our mental, psychological, and physical well-being—even and especially in the proximity of death." —Sebastian Fetscher, MD, Frieburg University Medical Center, Germany
"An important book and should be published for all of those who struggle through the experience of death without anything to guide them through the storms of conflicting emotions." —John Allman, neuroscientist, California Institute of Technology
“Here is the other side of cancer. I could see, for the first time, the mates and caregivers of my leukemia patients. I had never paid them any attention and so many of them were in worse shape than the patient. I will never again treat only my patients. How could I not have noticed?” —Harvey Priesler, former head of oncology, Rush Medical University
"You have integrated incredible times of reality with experiences we have yet to understand or replicate. And you have kept your head above the waters. I have never read anything to match it." —Daniel Buxhoeveden, brain evolution specialist and affiliated faculty member of the department of religious studies at the University of South Carolina
"Carole Travis-Henikoff’s fascinating story raises questions and mysteries, the kinds of questions that modern science is often afraid to acknowledge and the kinds of mysteries that both scare us and give us hope." —Father Andrew Greeley, priest, sociologist, journalist, and bestselling author
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Death: A Paradigm Shift.,
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This review is from: Passings: Death, Dying, and Unexplained Phenomena (Santa Monica Press) (Hardcover)
Carole Travis-Henikoff has done it again! In her previous work, "Dinner With A Cannibal", Carole graciously invites us to take a brave look at our dark side....no easy task. Yet, for those of us who managed to stick with it, there was redemption from shame and a deeper understanding of ourselves. Only after this difficult journey can we begin the evolutionary ascension from our finite animal nature to our infinite potential. Now, Henikoff, once again, manages to get us through yet another cultural taboo... Death.
In her new book, "Passings: Death, Dying and Unexplained Phenomena", she takes us further through this "dark night of the soul" and into the "light at the end of the tunnel". With riveting personal stories and intelligent exploration, she leads us to question our cultural, scientific and private views concerning death. This is a book about hope written by one who has touched the bottom of the abyss only to rise up, torch in hand, to illuminate the path for the rest of us. Paradoxically delightful, this book is not about death....it's about life! An excellent resource for those of us working in hospice. Rosemary Salerno, MSW,LCSW Psychotherapist End-of-Life Specialist
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"Passings: Death & Dying & Unexplained Phenomena" by Carole A. Travis-Henikoff I found to be a brilliant fearless look at a forbidden truth in our culture: that no person belongs to any of us, and actually we don't even own ourselves. Our existense is on loan from God or the Universe, whichever you believe in. While there is no escaping it for any of us, death and dying are generally big taboos in our youth-worshipping culture, a strange paradox since we live in such a violent society. All it takes is a glance at the front page of a newspaper or to click on the evening news. Given this, I think Henikoff is an out of the box writer to have tackled the subject and to have done it so well, head-on and from new perspective. She comes by her credentials for doing so by her own losses- five family members including a husband, daughter and father in three years time. She illuminates this journey with the light of her intelligence, the balm of compassion, and the thrilling hope of paranormal experiences.
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I found the book fascinating. It is a splendid mix of the personal and the professional and, above all, there are many questions and things to ponder. I found it hard to put down, was amazed by the author's openness, and am trusting of what she reported. I look forward to discussing this with my friends.
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