A Near-Death Experiencer clarfies the mysteries of death and dying, and describes how to prepare yourself for your own spiritual transition no matter how or when you die. The author ties the information from her own experience to the beliefs and practices of many religions, and the emerging science of death and dying, and synthesizes it all into a comprehensible whole. An Appendix describes many esoteric terms.
Diane Goble (1941-) was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island until her family moved to Florida in time for her to go to Coral Gables High School. Following graduation, she attended Florida Southern College and the University of Miami, leaving before graduation to begin her first career in radio. She become Creative Director at age 20 and was hired away by a station in Chicago. There she met her husband and stopped working before the birth of the first of their 3 children to raise her family. Her husband became a motion picture cameraman and they traveled all over the country to locations.
In 1971, Diane had a near-death experience (NDE) while whitewater river rafting during the filming of "Deliverance" in the Chattooga River near the Georgia/North Carolina border. Following their move to the Los Angles area and divorce a few years later, she returned to education at California State University Long Beach where she earned a BS in Psychology and MS in Community-Clinical Psychology.
Her first entrepreneurial effort was The Stress Management Center in 1987 which morphed into The Mind-Body-Spirit Center in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area. During that time, she channeled "Sitting in the Lotus Blossom" (ebook) containing wisdom from the ancient mystery schools. She returned to education again at St. John's University (LA) and earned a master's degree in Clinical Hypnotherapy, and became an ordained minister of The Congregational Church of Practical Theology. She became a psycho-spiritual teacher and specialized in past-life regression therapy.
In 1992, she wrote "Through the Tunnel: A Traveler's Guide to Spiritual Rebirth," based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead and her NDE perspective (out-of-print).
Back in California in 1996, she entered the growing world of the Internet with her first web site, BeyondtheVeil.net. For many years, it became a full-time non-paying job responding to email from people all over the world with questions about NDEs, death, the afterlife, conscious dying, the meaning of life, metaphysics and spirituality. In 2010, she published "Conversations with a Near-Death Experiencer" and "More Conversations with a Near-Death Experiencer," which contain many of those conversations (ebooks).
In 2008, she developed a self-study course to train end-of-life care educators in the Art of Conscious Dying so they could teach their students to be Transition Guides for the dying. In 2011, she wrote "How to Die Consciously: Secrets from Beyond the Veil," (ebook) to teach people how to overcome fear of death and live life to the fullest.
Diane and her Aussie-Lab dog, Spirit, now reside in Sisters, OR where she continues to maintain her web site and market her books, CDs and Transition Guide training program.
