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Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences: How Understanding NDEs Can Help Us Live More Fully by [Dr Penny Sartori, Pim van Lommel]

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A doctor recounts patient stories from her five-year clinical study of Near-Death Experiences, revealing how this phenomenon is more powerful than we realize

Dr. Penny Sartori is a registered nurse who began researching Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) in 1995 after one of her long-term intensive care patients begged her to let him die in peace. Inspired by this encounter, she went on to research NDEs in a PhD program, where she learned profound spiritual lessons and made startling discoveries that she now shares in The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences.

During her academic work, Dr. Sartori studied three samples of ICU patients during a five-year period. Here, she recounts the eye-opening stories of those patients who experienced NDEs and out-of-body experiences (OBEs). In one group, as many as 18% of patients experienced an NDE—though Patient #10 stood out among the others. After being unresponsive, he awoke to report he had experienced an OBE. He was able to describe what happened in the hospital room while he was unconscious and claimed he met not only his deceased father but a Jesus-like figure. Most shocking of all, he had regained the use of his hand—which had been paralyzed since birth.

When talking about the biggest takeaways from her research, Dr. Sartori shares how her findings have made her question the common belief that the brain gives rise to consciousness. Most importantly, she has gained a deeper appreciation for death—an experience she now views with less fear and anxiety.

In addition to detailing dozens of case studies, The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences also discusses childhood NDEs, the differences in NDEs among different cultures, and the after-effects of NDEs.

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“Nurse Penny Sartori was driven by an experience with a traumatized dying patient to study near-death experiences, not to pursue what might happen in an afterlife but rather to improve what happens in this life. Her goal was to learn all she could about the dying process in order to help her patients find meaning in their illness and restore a sense of well-being in their lives. The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences, the fruit of her labors, is an invaluable resource for health care workers, for dying patients and their families, and for all of us who will face death eventually.”
- Bruce Greyson, M.D., Carlson Professor of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA

"With more than twenty years experience of nursing dying people in an intensive therapy unit , plus a Ph.D. in Near-death Experiences, Dr. Sartori is very well qualified to discuss issues of death and dying. She believes that NDEs provide us with a greater understanding of the dying process and that care of terminally ill patients could be enhanced if NDEs would more widely studied. A greater acceptance of the inevitability of death would help the situation of terminally ill people. At present they are increasingly exposed to invasive and burdensome treatments even when prospects for recovery are recognised as minimal. This is an immensely valuable contribution to current debates about patient care."
- Paul Badham PhD., Professor Emeritus of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Wales, Trinity, St. David --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Dr. Penny Sartori PhD, RGN is an expert in NDEs and undertook the UK's first long-term prospective study. She is the author of The Near-Death Experiences of Hospitalized Intensive Care Patients: A Five Year Clinical Study and lectures both nationally and internationally. She currently teaches two courses she has written entitled "Death and Dying as Spiritual Transformation" and "Science, Spirituality and Health" at Swansea University. The author lives in UK. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Watkins Publishing (March 25, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 25, 2014
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Can be used to make care of the dying more compassionate

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 13, 2018

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Penny Sartori's "Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences" is a very relevant book, based on the author's own personal experience as a nurse dealing with patients in hospitals and hospices as well as significant narrative evidence voluntarily offered as a result of articles she has posted and talks she has given. In addition, Sartori discusses various "scientific" and neurological hypotheses that have been proposed to challenge the veracity of NDEs and clearly and cogently delineates their shortcomings.

A personal disclaimer here: although I have not myself experienced an NDE, I am by no means skeptical. Quite frankly, I am a firm believer in the reality of a Cosmic Consciousness from which all subsidiary consciousness derives. To me, the idea that the brain "creates" consciousness rather than vice versa is pure absurdity. By far the majority opinion of humankind from the dawn of history supports some sort of "afterlife", a continuation of individual consciousness and/or re-merging of the individual with the overarching consciousness of the universe. The emergence of neuroscience and brain chemistry as an area of human investigation does not in any way provide a reason for negating the far more soundly based awareness of this foundational realty.

In any event, this eminently readable treatise is a worthwhile addition to an important present-day concern, and the practical and compassionate insights Sartori offers in terms of ways in which new insights into the validity of NDEs can be used to make care of the dying more compassionate should receive serious consideration.

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Timvr

Well written, objective, thoughtful, compassionate. Fascinating NDE accounts

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 1, 2014

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Penny Sartori's book is the latest in a series of high quality books on the NDE that combine clinical data with careful analysis and a theme that focuses on the author's area of expertise.

In this case, the author combines clinical research with a deep compassion for patients that is manifested in a desire to understand and provide practical help to those who have had NDEs and are adjusting to life in this world again.

There are several examples of NDEs and A very interesting section of the book that describes the author's eventual realization that consciousness is almost certainly separate from the physical brain, and that the consciousness or soul is experiencing the NDE apart from the body as the experiencers claim.

She discusses her own findings in precise, specific detail, and her conclusions are essentially the same as those of Pim van Lommel in "Endless Consciousness" and Sam Parnia in "Erasing Death" - both recent high quality books on the subject - and Michael Saboms 1982 classic "Recollections at Death".

I would have preferred more descriptions of NDEs but that is a small quibble. This book is recommended for those who are new to the subject and those who are interested in the health care aspects. People who are close to death are often left without a listening ear and people who are aware. Sartori makes an eloquent case for addressing those needs.

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Sami

Dry, boring study on a profound subject

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 3, 2022

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Written by a Nurse and from a medical, point of view. Found her writing dry, boring, totally losing the emotional and life changing aspect of NDE experience. Her conclusion is yes people have NDE and it can change their lives. To understand the Spirit and personal meaning of NDE look somewhere else. Atwater does a better job of combining both scientific and personal theory her books on Amazon.

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Outstanding Book!! One of the best books on NDEs that you will read!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 23, 2015

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I have read a lot of books on this subject and this one stands out as one of the best. It is very thorough and easy to read with many different real life accounts of NDEs. I did not find one single boring part in the book, I thoroughly enjoyed it the whole way through. This book does a great job of explaining Near Death Experiences and the high probability that we continue on after death. The author is very well qualified as she has done years and years of extensive research on this topic and has worked first hand around these types of events in the medical field.

I gladly recommend this book to all and I want to say thank you to the author for your hard work and extensive research in this area and most of all for the production of this book to share what you know. I also want readers to be advised that you will not only gain more knowledge on NDEs but you will also gain more insight on what is truly important in this life.

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V. Kneifl

The most exceptional book I've ever read in this field!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 7, 2018

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This is the most exceptional book I've ever read in this field. The author challenges modern medical attitudes that advocate sustaining life at any cost to the patient, countering that death is but a continuation of the journey and is not to be feared. She points out the striking similarities that mark near-death experiences over a broad spectrum of races and beliefs, challenging and pretty much discrediting the various"scientific" theories that attempt to explain near-death experiences. Her summary is inspirational, citing the conclusion that we are all part of a universal "oneness," that loved ones we've "lost" actually remain much closer to us that we realize.This is one of the few books I didn't delete from my Kindle after I finished reading it. I know I'm going to want to browse through it again and again.

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The answers at last

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 26, 2021

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I had a NDE experience in 2003 as a result of a severe RTA on my scooter. I sustained significant injuries and was diagnosed with severe PTSD. All of that healed and was fixed via EMDR. For the past 18 years I have been feeling isolated, almost suicidal at times searching for answers as to what my NDE was all about and why I came back from such an intense life changing experience. This materialistic world seemed so insignificant and almost pointless to me in comparison to the other side.

I have been to mediums and got some answers and even have had sessions with clinical psychotherapists trying to come to terms with the life changing paradigm shift of having the NDE.

This book provides the answers and is what I have been looking for. Reading others NDE’s and the effects it has had on their lives (both good and bad) has been of immense comfort, clarity and relief that I am not crazy after all. The NDE was such an intense experience and a glimpse into another beautiful world………..and then you come back to this world.

My NDE made me a better person, a better health care professional and it also has left me with no fear whatsoever of death or of what comes at the end of this life.

I’ve bought the second book ‘Transformation Of……’ as these insights and answers are invaluable. I can now move forward with my life.

Thanks for writing this book and the years of research Penny.

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Stormygirl

An addictive and magnificent page turner!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 17, 2021

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This book was completely intriguing to me, as I’ve had a profound interest in Near Death Experiences, since my teens. Penny Sartori’s fascinating expertise in the phenomena, following many years of research, alongside her vast experience in nursing is what affords it validation. The Patient recall of their NDE’s and the subsequent stories relayed, were intensely heartwarming and brought a sense of comfort to me, hearing how profoundly their experience left them. I could not put this book down and cannot recommend it highly enough. It certainly raises more questions that science can’t currently answer and perhaps, never will.
An amazing read for anyone interested in this theory that death isn’t the end... the transition to spirit, or the possibly of a life after the body dies, whatever you wish to view it as.
It’s also comforting to think, as someone mourning the death of loved ones, that maybe we shouldn’t be so consumed by grief, because they are in a much more peaceful and beautiful place, filled full of love and will be there to greet us when it’s our time.

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Mary H

well researched and well presented evidence surrounding the end of life and beyond

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 13, 2014

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This book is so interesting. I've been interested in NDEs since the 1970s, when Raymond Moody first started to write about them, and have read a lot about them since then. Also during my 40+ years of nursing I've heard about them from my patients and have become more and more aware that there's something going on which we don't understand yet. Penny Satori's book takes first hand evidence surrounding NDEs and other phenomena surrounding death, which are familiar to most nurses, and looks at it in a clear, analytical and unemotional way. I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in the process of dying and the possibility of life after death. As a bereaved mum I've also found huge comfort in seeing evidence that my daughter still exists.

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KB

Excellent and Absorbing Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 20, 2014

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This is a book which is well worth reading. It considers the whole 'near-death experience' area and the author, as an experienced intensive care nurse, is supremely qualified to discuss the subject. Dr Sartori has already conducted a comprehensive consideration of NDEs, now she considers the whole subject in a more easy-going and anecdotal manner. She is persuaded that many, though not all, near the point of death have such experiences and, from her own great personal knowledge, is able to debunk the usual "scientific" explanations. This is fascinating and intriguing. Sartori joins the ranks of the increasing number who are insisting that modern science must change course from its narrow and materialistic understanding of the human body and mind and accept that brain and consciousness are separate matters. Modern science is still a long way from doing this but pressure is continually building.

I recommend this book.

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Marion Athorne

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 6, 2014

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I gave this book five stars, because it's the first in depth study of its kind, well written and researched in a most exemplary manner - although to say 'I love it' is not quite the emotion with which it can be read! 'Mind awakening' could be a better description. I have now made it a present to two Doctors (one a Hospice founder), and await their comments with interest ...

I would like to thank the author, personally, for her conviction and courage in undertaking the research. Bless you, Dr Sartori !

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