Dr Joanne Coyle

At first I thought this book was interesting, with the telling of numerous people's experiences as they were near death, or were clinically dead. After a bit, though, i became bored because the stories were all the same. The interpretation of that, either the stories related were actually experienced and alike because of their truth or the people relating the stories had read of experiences like this and were influenced by them (I won't say making up their stories) I will leave up to other readers. The book just didn't do anything for me.… (plus d'informations)

I have been fascinated by near death experiences (NDEs) for a long time and am always on the lookout for scientifically-based analysis of people's accounts of what they believe to be the afterlife. I didn't feel this book was strictly based on observations and analysis, but rather included many beliefs and interpretations the author held prior to her research. That said, there is still a lot of interesting information, much of it similar to what other authors have presented, but also a few new nuggets and insights that I appreciated. The book is well written, easy to read, and easy to understand. This review is in return for a free copy of the e-book.… (plus d'informations)

I received a Mobi.file copy of this book from the publisher through a giveaway they had on LibraryThing, and the following is my honest opinion.
The notion of NDE [Near Death Experiences] is not new if we’re to agree/believe what the author of this book, Dr. Joanne Coyle, is telling her readers. It’s been around and recorded in the ancient myths we’ve read about and found in the oral histories of aboriginal peoples of the world which she uses in relating the message of life existing after death.
In ancient times, individuals talking about the future after apparently looking as if they’d died had been looked upon as being visionaries and therefore sought after by others. Being a child of the 1950’s, I can remember a novelty song, “Please Mr. Custer...”, where the person singing the song is a soldier who had a dream about the big upcoming fight with the Indians, where he wakes up and tells Custard he doesn’t want to fight because he has an arrow in his back and about all the Indians that will be out there, needless we all know what happened at the Little Big Horn.
I, myself, had a massive heart attack, and woke up about 10/11 days later in the ICU of a hospital; which meant I must have been clinically dead for a brief time period, with hardly any remembrance of the episode these days except for the mental thoughts that I had essentially died.
In the end, as the description states that Dr. Joanne Coyle is a medical sociologist with twenty-five years’ experience of researching patients’ attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors; and that after carefully examining over four hundred NDE accounts, she has reached the astonishing conclusion that by lessening our fear of dying, NDEs serve an even greater purpose.
The book fulfills its intended purpose of us, her readers, being part of a bigger reality of a myriad of universes and dimensions of time and space. Ultimately, ending with the possibility of there actually being a life after death, which is why I’ve given Dr. Coyle the 5 STARS she’s garnered from this reviewer.… (plus d'informations)